Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are willing to demand what they wish, the Mayor has hardly been consistent in depriving them, as he has, of the opportunity to exercise this very power of discrimination; and if his original statement is exaggerated, and Boston is really, as the atrical managers assert, a "leg-show town", it seems quite useless to attempt a reformation of character by such superficial means...
...souls and not their mere material bodies. He strikes at the root of a man's character; he gets not only under his skin but into his heart, and provides the force to make him a man. For example, take the case of a drunkard, who breaks a leg in one of his orgies. The doctor can set the leg; thus physically the man may be mended. But is his soul any better than it was before? No; and that is where the minister steps in to do his part in mending the drunkard's soul...
...blacklisting her husband. In her pique at him, she flies to a relative's farm and finds a young cousin alone for the night, ripe for her plucking. She decides to make the most of isolation. She enmeshes him; then walks into his bedroom while he stands on one leg...
...years in preparatory school and college is not a matter of a few months, but almost of years. By the close of the fall season, many of the Harvard men were rowing a style which could not be classified. They were beginning to utilize to better advantage their leg power, but the habit of leaning far forward and backward was not easily to be broken...
...earnest when college was resumed after the Christmas recess. All men ran three times a week over a distance varying from three to five miles. Coach Stevens has laid such emphasis on running not only in order to develop the wind of the oarsmen but more especially the leg muscles, upon which rests the burden of the pull-through in Coach Stevens' method of rowing...