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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goals--all in the final period--and two of them were unassisted. Joe Kittredge, the center, made the other two. Preston played an excellent offensive and defensive game, a performance made all the more incredible by the fact that he was skating on only one leg, because of a knee injury aggravated in the second period...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Boston College Defeats Sextet, 8-5 | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

There are two sophomores in Jordan's lineup today-Chip Carter and Al Sawyer-probably the most capable of last year's freshmen. Carter is filling in for Roger Wach, bothered by a bad knee, at 136. Sawyer captained the freshmen last winter and will face MIT captain Wilbur Haggerty at 155 today...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Quinted Meets Navy; Wrestlers Oppose MIT | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...epoch. I have had 3,000 models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Elegance | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Jackson bruises leg," "Nadherny wrenches knee". . . this year, as ever, the stories come off the practice fields reeking of iodine and arnica. Two years ago they practically amputed Ferd's foot before he managed to escape from the pressrooms in time to smash Harvard into minute particles...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Eli Gridders Defy 'Injuries" for Harvard Tilt | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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