Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week ago these two sensational quarter milers met in the final leg of the one mile relay championship at the Penn Relay Carnival on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Bohannon, starting the final lap with a considerable lead, seized the baton and raced around the track in a remarkable dash which was unofficially clocked at 48 3-5 seconds, winning for his team the one mile championship, and for himself sudden fame as a quarter miler. Allen was far behind when at last the Harvard stick was handed to him, but he ran a sensational losing race, completing the circuit...
...elevator. A tuberculous condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from the flesh of the leg. He will then separate heel from leg...
Andrew W. Mellon: "The will of one S. Harry Smith, War veteran, was made public. To me, he has bequeathed the wooden leg given him by the Government for the loss of his own leg at St. Mihiel. Friends of Mr. Smith said he resented a recent action of my Department in reducing his compensation...
...Browning, who has been rowing regularly on the Red crew, is incapacitated at present with an infected leg. The only other member of the squad who is disabled is F. M. Sedgewick, who has the mumps...
When man's great and good friend, the horse, slips and breaks his leg, he is promptly shot. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sees to that. When a Senator or a Representative slips and loses an election, he continues as a lame duck law maker for four months longer. To provide for the prompt decapitation of maimed ducks and halt politicians, a proposed amendment to the Constitution was brought before the Senate, The Senate passed the proposal by vote of 63 to 7. Its terms...