Word: leech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle through the body. The 100 doctors wore full dress and all their decorations; they were received...
...Braiman, c.f., 3 0 1 4 0 1 Gray, c.f., 1 0 0 1 0 1 Rose, r.f., 4 1 2 1 0 0 Crimmins, 3b., 4 0 1 2 2 1 Means, p., 1 1 1 0 1 0 Cole, p., 1 0 0 0 0 1 Leech, p., 0 0 0 0 0 1 *Morrill 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals, 35 3 9 24 11 7 *Batted for Cole in seventh inning...
Means Barbee Hits off Means, 3 in 3 innings; off Cole, 7 in 3 innings off Leech: 4 in 2 innings. Double play...
...themselves to a marked degree in their colored engravings with topics of equal or greater moment today than at their time of issue. Thus those of 1852 and 1860 are titled "Progress of Bloomerism or a Complete Change" and "Swimming for Ladies." The figures depicted by the engraver John Leech show that though the costumes of this day would today be conspicuous for their superfluity, at that time they represented what the younger generation would do despite the protests of their more staid mothers and grandmothers...
...letter of the Secretary of Labor, Subscriber James J. Davis, follows: My dear Mr. Leech...