Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record and won by seven strides. When they met again for the same distance at Shepherd's Bush, England, in a Cornell & Princeton v. Oxford & Cambridge meet last week, there seemed scant justification for the British belief that Lovelock would repeat his victory. An operation on his knee last winter, which doctors feared might end his track career, had apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had not come within ten seconds of his best time. Bonthron, in a year of running against the best milers in the U. S., had broken the record...
...last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded...
...Knee cap of a sheep worn as a garter to prevent leg muscle cramps...
...Plan for cutting the same farm output which he helped to stimulate but, because he was largely responsible for formulating it as finally adopted, he was called to Washington a year ago and made Wheat Production Administrator. Last August the President's "pet children" were set upon his knee and he was told to see what he could do about them, as Director of Subsistence Homesteads with 25,000,000 federal dollars...
...shoulder wound, got a city health officer to redress it. Few days later three Federal agents trapped him in a St. Paul apartment with his sweetheart, Evelyn Frechette. Whipping out a machine gun, he sprayed his way to freedom but not before he had been pinked just above the knee. At the point of a gun he forced another doctor to treat him and stayed three days in the home of a nurse before resuming his travels. These finally took him back to Mooresville and his old father's home where he ate a quiet Sunday dinner with...