Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Coach Stevens came to Harvard last fall, he brought with him the so-called Western American or English professional type of rowing. This system's essential feature is the utilization of the powerful leg muscles instead of the weaker back muscles, which were used so much in the old Harvard method of leaning far forward, and backward at the beginning and end of the pull-through...
...through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving college for the year, he placed himself in charge of Mr. Neudorf when he returned the following September, and finally succeeded in having his arm and leg function, although he walked with a very slight limp...
...with one leg wanted to row," he continued, "so we sent him to Weld boathouse, fitted up a special shell for him, weighted it accurately, and during the entire season the man took his exercise that way. There have been many cases of infantile paralysis where men have been greatly benefited by treatment. In one instance a young man who could hardly keep his feet if he was even slightly pushed, has taken up boxing under Coach Shevlin, and has become so proficient that he is entered for the University tournament in the near future. Another man with one leg...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Sonorous Walter Hampden valiantly gives the poetic drama more than one leg to stand...
...fishes which leap out of the water on to necks of their prey, and other amazing fauna. Although treated with a most irreverent levity by the daily press, the Captain laid his papers before the Royal Geographical Society. A suspicion still lingers that that learned body is having its leg pulled...