Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taught plenty of people to swim and play in the water." reminisced Trustee Roosevelt. "I remember one lady patient of large proportions. She could not get her two feet down to the bottom of the pool. I would seize one large knee [Mr. Roosevelt began an elaborate pantomime of his story] and gradually force it down until the foot hit the bottom. 'Have you got it?' I would say. 'Yes.' the lady would reply. Then I would seize the other leg, and try to get it toward the bottom. But no sooner would I let go of the first...
...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...hunting expedition out of Uvalde, Tex., John Nance Garner shot a deer, became lost, climbed a tree, plunged ten feet into thick brush. Nursing scratches and a sprained knee, he limped into camp 300 yd. away...
Only major team in the U. S. unbeaten and untied for two years, Princeton warmed up for Yale against Lehigh. Halfback Garrett Benjamin ("Garry") LeVan, benched with a bad knee earlier this season, showed he was completely hale again by scoring twice in the first period. In the second, with LeVan on the sidelines. Princeton made three touchdowns in four plays. By the time the game was over, Coach Crisler had used three full teams. Score of Princeton's 15th straight victory...
...fact that fourteen men were removed from the injury list only yesterday might decrease Harvard's chances tomorrow, for Captain Oakes has been out all week with a broken rib received in the Jayvee game, and Pope, with a knee injury, may not be able to play. But a squad of experienced reserves are ready to back up the starting eleven. HARVARD '38 YALE '38 Colwell, l.e. r.e., Gallagfier Kevorkian, l.t. r.t., Dickens Glueck, l.g. r.g., Ogan Wysocki, c. c., Lowndes Allen, r.g. l.g., Castle Maser, r.t. l.t., Weed Ingalls, r.e. l.e., Peterson O'Toole, qb. q.b., Ewart Nesmith, l.h.b...