Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplest way to explain it is to say that we have put knees on our automobiles. Each front wheel will be attached individually to the chassis by its own soft spring. When it encounters a bump or a hole, it will rise or fall independently, as your leg is lifted or straightened by its knee without affecting your other leg or the equilibrium of your body. The result will be that the wheel, not the passenger, will...
...rules that they might favor. It was suggested that the present "dead-ball" rule should be abolished. As an example of the inadequate ness of this rule. Bingham cited a play in the Harvard-Dartmouth game, when a Dartmouth player caught a kick-off, stumbled to one knee, and was stopped by the referee, with no Harvard man within 20 yards...
Aside from this the match was slow, consisting of a punting duel between Bilodeau and Exeter's Kagain. The prep-school suffered a serious loss in the first period when Captain Hamelin Turner left the game with a pulled cartilege in his left knee...
...final. Crawford, despite his sturdy appearance, was last week suffering from the poor condition which has been widespread among top tennis players in 1933. He had had too much championship tennis. He was too nervous to sleep before the semi-finals : he suffered from night sweats, a twisted knee and palpitations of the heart. After the rest, during which Crawford admitted to his doctor that he felt dizzy. Perry ran out on the court apparently fresher than when the match began. He ran off three games, his flat drives equaling anyone's for speed. Crawford let him blaze...
...minutes every frontier post was warned. Shrewdly the Nazis did not make for the heavily-guarded Bavarian border, but for Italy, 20 miles away. On the Brenner Pass road an Austrian gendarme tried to stop them, was nearly run down, fired at the car, struck Nazi Hofer in the knee. At 5 a. m. the car was found abandoned three miles from the Italian frontier at Gries. Alpine troops and gendarmes searched the mountainsides with bloodhounds, to no avail. Franz Hofer turned up safely over the border in Bolzano next morning. As soon as he was well enough...