Word: knees
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hours after he was wounded in action with the American forces in France on March 13, Captain Archibald Roosevelt '17 lay in a muddy trench under fire, suffering great agony from a shrapnel wound in the knee and a broken arm, according to a letter received by Dr. Joshuah Hartwell. The letter contains the first definite news regarding the extent of Captain Roosevelt's wounds and the circumstances under which they were received...
...opening of the game, T. M. Avery extracted the puck from a scrimmage and slipped it past Burgess, the Exeter goal. Thereafter, most of the play was in the visitors' territory, and Captain E. L. Bigelow scored twice more in the next few minutes. An injury to his knee, however, was bothering him and he had to give way to F. McN. Bacon, whom L. B. Van Ingen supplanted at left wing. Before the period ended, Avery made another goal and R. S. Humphrey, who had been playing an aggressive game at cover-point, made an individual dash...
...First: copious apoligies for not having written you before. Many times I thought to avail myself of the privilege but writing tables are dishearteningly scarce and the knee is a shaky substitute. Now, however, I have a very substantial mahogany table (that must date back as far as the last of the Napoleons) a rather massive French lamp, and a most comfortable armchair. All that is lacking is the ability to write of conditions here in the way I should like...
...what a pity if the treasury must become a knee-dropping suppliant to the American public. There is a higher obligation than self which confronts the true citizen. In Senator Lodge's words it is this...
Salisbury, the first-baseman, and R. Harte '17, were the best men in the opposing line-up, although the latter was slowed up by a bad knee...