Word: knees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...
Butch Jordan's aggregation, minus Dave Smith, arrived in Syracuse late yesterday afternoon and then took a bus for Ithaca. Smith's knee and elbow injuries kept him from making the trip, and Dave Coombs will fill his 128-pound position...
Some sports ran out their popularity, while others recurred in a cycle. But the streamlined look of the girl playing the sports has continually progressed. By 1928 the red serge bloomers were well above the knee, and a few years later red pleated shorts trimmed the players' figures. At present simple white tennis dresses gives a clean, crisp look to the gym classes...
...factors that especially aided the Crimson were the ten penalties (including two penalty shots) called against the Tigers and the fact that Princeton's first-string center, Bill Clarkson, was out of the lineup with a knee injury...