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Word: kneed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to stay. Encouraged by the example of certain irreproachable members of the Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE CIRLS AND THE M.D.C. BOYS | 11/13/1935 | See Source »

...Republican county chairmen, 450 city leaders and 800 "Young Republicans," polling them on their preferences for Republican nominee in 1936, exhorting them: "All this scared-rabbit talk about 'You can't beat a man with four billion dollars' is just the kind of propaganda weak-kneed Republican leaders have been swallowing for five years A lot of hooey! Let's get behind a leader with some guts for the fight and in 90 days you'll see a reborn Republican Party in this country . . . and with the battle cry 'Save the Constitution' sweeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Can Roosevelt Be Beaten? | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...muscles, tendons. He cited a dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20° outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Derelicts | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...iled his baby, and--dad-burned if I want any more breakfast!" It is in this connection that I wish to rebuke the short-sighted ones responsible for the censorship and padlocking. This last edition of the Lampoon was an expert slam at a magazine that dishes up weak-kneed sex pictures, pointless, time-wasting fiction, amid a pseudo-highbrow atmosphere, at 50 cents per dose, instead of, as was pointed out, the price of the tabloid with the same stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Pornographia" | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

...benefit of our weak-kneed representatives in Washington I wish to say as a charter member of the local post of the American Legion that no one knows what the members of the Legion want or how they will vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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