Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...styles of wrestling were entirely different," Pat remarked. "The Roman technique was to work on the upper part of the body, while the Japs and Chinese relied more on tricky leg work. The Roman style is that copied by most college teams today. That's where the flying mare, the hiplock and the headlock come from. As to the hold known as the 'Oklahoma Ride', that was originated by the Romans. The boys from out west just appropriated...
...plot, Henry IV poses the cool Hal against the fiery Hotspur; but for theme it poses Hotspur against Falstaff, contrasting on a mighty scale the romantic and realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no skill in surgery then? . . . Who hath honor?-he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. . . . Therefore I'll none of it." So Falstaff lives; and Hotspur dies...
...Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud...
Coach Ulen's tutees did not exactly shine but the opposition offered by the "Y" did not lend itself to record-breaking efforts on anyone's part. Bill Runge, of Boston, with wins in the 50 and 100, and a relay leg, was the sturdiest performer of the meet, while Eric Cutler's two victories in the distance events also stood out, particularly his 2:18.2 furlong. All three of Harvard's breast rokers were vastly improved, Mr. Ulen noted with approval...
...ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone peg had been completely absorbed and replaced by the human bone...