Word: knees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times last week. I have been an interested reader of TIME several months, so decided to report this longest dry time which the oldest or middle-aged inhabitants can remember experiencing in this locality. The river Withlacooche is so near dry, hogs walk in centre of river bed just knee deep. The water is generally 15 ft. or 20 ft. deep when of normal depth. TIME is very wonderful...
...Gene McEver scored more points than any other back in the U. S. An injury to his right knee the next summer might have ended his football playing; instead, it made him better than ever. After a season on the sidelines, he has learned how to plunge straight through a line instead of shifting through a broken field, how to shake off tacklers instead of dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time...
When Referee Gunboat Smith had counted six, Carnera started to get up. He then sank back and rested on one knee, finally rose eight seconds after the knock down. Sharkey, maintaining his reputation for hysterical behavior in crucial moments, seized Referee Smith, screeched that he had won the fight by a knock out, then tried to jump out of the ring headfirst. His seconds persuaded him to resume the fight. For the next eleven rounds Sharkey adopted the brilliantly aggressive style which he uses when he is confident of winning, Carnera, devoid of aplomb, countered Sharkey's punches with...
...vacation. The audit disclosed nothing amiss. But in his $75-a-month home in River Forest Wolf heard of the audit and thought his game was up. He asked the vice president, an old, personal friend, to call at his house that evening. The two men sat down knee to knee and in ten minutes the whole sad tale was told...
...Snowden who was excused, "kissed hands'" and received the small leather cases containing their seals of office from George V. There was no actual osculation. In spite of the fact that all of these gentlemen had been through this ceremony before, they were warned by a whispering usher in knee breeches merely to bow over the royal fingers...