Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apply a tourniquet above the knee or elbow whenever the bite is located below those levels. Release it every ten minutes to prevent gangrene...
Cambridge is at last reaching its majority. It has already remained too long an overgrown child wearing Buster Brown collars and knee breeches. A year and a half ago, in fact, measurements were taken for long pants, but now the tailored garment is ready to be worn...
...Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three bits of cockney slang, by the way, are worth half an hour of the choicest native profanity...
...field goals and four touchdowns to nothing. In these days before the adoption of numerical scoring, four touchdowns counted as one goal, which accounts for the Yale victory in 1876. The Yale men wore dark trousers, blue shirts, and wellow caps. Harvard the usual Crimson shirts and stockings with knee breeches. W.A. Whiting '77, captain of the Harvard fifteen--there were fifteen on each side--unable to play because of an injury, acted as umpire for Harvard...
...accoutrement for the Crimson team of 1881 consisted of high baseball shoes with leather strips on the soles, crimson stockings and jerseys, with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...