Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain A. H. O'Neil '28 jumped to a good lead at the gun, and finished his leg of the journey 12 yards ahead of the field. Running a very fast half-mile, he raced down the water-drenched track to hand the baton to F. E. Cummings '30 one minute, 57 and 4-5 seconds after he had started. Cummings held the Harvard lead throughout his run, and relinquished the baton to W. C. Peet '28, five yards in front of his nearest contender, Wardwell of Bates. In the home-stretch of his leg, Peet gave up the pace...
While Heaven thus offered Consolation the earthy newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief...
...plodders, made them run across lots to a circus tent. Admission to the tent was through a turnstyle. Inside the tent Red Grange presided. Said a wag, "If any more runners drop out Red will have to get in the race himself." Runner Mike Baze was hit on his leg by a car. Runner Andrew Payne was leading at Chandler. The runners started March 4; they may reach New York in another month...
...Last week, in Montreal, Alice Provost, 22, Marie Blanche Armande Nichol, 17 and Thérèse Morier, 17, claimed to have been cured suddenly on Jan. 28 of well-defined infirmities (discrepancy in the length of legs, paralyzed leg, stiff arm); when and because one Father Jacques Dugas subjected them to a laying-on of a reliquary which contained the bones of some recently beatified Jesuit martyrs. Physicians examined the girls, sent a certificate of their cure to Rome by a Jesuit Father and said: "You may thank God for such extraordinary benedictions...
...said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken for so much, a leg for so much, or beaten up for so much. Just like New York or any other big city-excepting we print our crime here and they...