Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Campbell was counting on a strong backfield combination. Then it was learned that Pollard, star Middlebury athlete, and Walling, who came from the North Shore Country Day School of Chicago with an excellent reputation, would both be out of scrimmage for two or three weeks on account of leg injuries. These two players were destined to be halfbacks in the line-up against Andover today. Their loss is a decided blow...
...authors of the play are Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings of the staff of The New York World. Stallings?who served in the Marines during the War, lost a leg and won a captaincy and a Croix de Guerre?was reported to have smiled broadly at the report...
...lives jovially on his 300-acre estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass., said to be worth three million dollars. He inherited $175,000,000 from his mother. His income from her estate, aside from his own properties, is reported as one million a year. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic-so he rides about on the seven miles of paved roads on his estate in a small electric car. He keeps 300 employes and has 32 resi dences for them. On his estate is a swimming pool, oil heated for cold weather. His hobbies...
...Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
Detroiters sat on the cool verandas of their Yacht Club, trained their glasses on a line of snorting speed boats that came plunging down the Detroit River, swept around a wide turn and plunged back upstream on the other leg of an oval course. Toward evening it was announced that Rainbow IV, owned and driven by Harry B. Greening, of Hamilton, Ont., had the best times for three 30-mile heats. Greening was not presented with the American Power Boat Association's Gold Challenge Cup, for which he had raced. A rival pilot protested that Rainbow IV was constructed...