Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less sanguine guardians of the faith, folk who regard Yale's official action as a weak-kneed surrender to rashly importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...
...their opening games, the Viennese amazed the onlookers with their speed and long, swinging passes. The underslung, knuckle-kneed U. S. players met them with a massed defense, a short-passing attack. Though the ball flew like a heavy bird four times as often toward the U. S. goal as it hurtled like a bullet toward the Hakoans', it entered the latter three times, the former never...
...Manhattan, sloe-eyed Italian children competed in a baby show. Some were knock-kneed, some astigmatic, round-shouldered, swivel-hocked, unduly thin; some spilled their milk with mild equability, as if a saucepan in their stomachs were softly frothing over. But well-nigh perfect was Anthony Chieco. He was fat. He was serene. "What do you feed him on?" doctors asked the mother. "Spaghetti," shrugged enormous Mrs. Chieco. "He eats moocha spaghetti, and he drinks da vino- wine. Madre di Dio, he drinks it, oouf! like ees water...
...Manchester, N. H., lives an elderly policeman named John Smith. He was manager of the Norfolk Club in a Virginia minor league when Mathewson, a big boy, knock-kneed and ungainly, was starting with a team from Taunton. John Smith saw him pitch a game in Manchester and lose 6-5 and signed him for a season with the Virginia club...
Thereafter, Wills held his fire, winning all the rounds by clever defense which Fiipo, weak-kneed and wild, could not crash through, and by thumping away painfully at Firpo's left kidney during the interminable clinches...