Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller '27, Harvard's giant sprinter, pulled a leg muscle, and did well to collect a fifth place in the century...
...Again in this same number 'I have to leap from the floor onto a table and off about ten times in succession. If one is not terribly careful, it is annoyingly easy to scrape one's leg in making the flight...
Last week in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry Duell, no Indian, started out to run 90 mi. on an indoor track. After eating up 76 mi. in 9 hr. 15 min. he quit. Cause: leg cramp...
...strange delights. Mrs. Shine began to toss fretfully. Into his sleep-swollen brain filtered the Shine baby's sobs, "WAAAH! Ugh, ugh, ugh." Cursing, Mr. Shine arose from his slumbers, stumbled to the crib, picked up the child (aged 1), handled it so roughly he broke its leg...
...suffered a broken leg and shoulder he might have risen, seen other ruins, walked through the streets of what a few moments before had been the town of Rock Springs, Tex., which was now a tornado-twisted ruin with less than ten buildings left standing. Of its 800 inhabitants, 56 were killed and from 150 to 170 injured. Texas, a tornado-play-ground, experienced 15 other "twisters" during the week...