Word: knees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholesome. To say that // Duce ignores Her Excellency and lives a bachelor's life in Rome is to ignore the fact that he also visits her from time to time in Milan or on their farm at Forli in northern Italy, bounces their latest babe upon his knee and otherwise demonstrates his warm family feelings...
...yard breast stroke, will meet keen opposition in the swimming of Jeremiah Murnane, who defeated him in the dual meet with the Boys' Club. E. E. Stowell '34, who won the intercollegiate crown in the backstroke last week, will be unable to compete because of an injury to his knee received at Annapolis...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
...team showed recent signs of a change in form, however, until last week when they suffered a relapse at the hands of a quintet from Pittsburgh. Possible changes in the lineup are being contemplated and if effected may alter the situation in the contest tonight. Matursevitch injured his knee in practice and it is doubtful whether he will be available...
...Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...