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Word: knees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rugby, and later on a couple of scrums took place. At the end a game was held between the Freshmen and some upperclassmen who came out. M. E. Bothner of Cape Town, South Africa, who was probably the best Freshman player in view of his previous experience, dislocated his knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN OUT FOR FRESHMAN RUGBY TEAM ON FIRST DAY | 3/11/1931 | See Source »

...night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That's exactly what he done. . . . Then after I said I would marry him, I give in and kissed him for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...himself, and made me the goat." Mr. Vanderbilt then gave newsmen the "real truth": "I was riding with Mussolini, who drove. A small child ran in front of the machine . . . and was hit. I looked back to see if the child was hurt. Mussolini placed his hand on my knee and said: 'Never look back, Vanderbilt, always look ahead in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vanderbilt Truth | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Wesley '33, and J. W. Fobes '32 will make up the Crimson two-mile relay quartet with G. N. Barrie '32 and G. P. Rosen '33 as alternates. Hallowell mainstay of the two-mile quartet is still in the hospital as a result of an operation on the knee which caused him trouble during the cross country season. It will be a fortnight before he can be in training again. Boston College and Holy Cross have shown strength in this event and Harvard will be gaining a worthwhile victory if it triumphs in the two-mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WILL BE REPRESENTED BY 72 MEN IN K. OF C. MEET | 1/30/1931 | See Source »

Soapbox. A bird biplane landed on Roosevelt Field, N. Y., one afternoon last week and a small boy in knee-breeches jumped out. Bystanders looked casually for the pilot to follow him. None appeared. The boy, Joseph Sheehan Jr., 12, of Suffern, N. Y., had made his first solo flight, sitting on a soap-box and two air cushions to reach the controls. Next day Henry Bierds, 17, of Nyack (near Suffern) soloed after 100 min. instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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