Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly in recognition of the prime importance of prose composition, as well as the deplorable deficiency of the average student in its mastery, that the Faculty Council has bestowed new dignity upon much-maligned English A. Hitherto the course has been a fifth leg, an extra burden which less fortunate Freshmen were forced to bear like a vestigial organ. Now, decrees the Council, it shall count toward a degree, More important than this, its exemption requirements have been raised, so that a considerable increase in the percentage of first year men taking the course is to be expected...
Austie Harding put the Hoddermen back in the lead in 4.50 of the second period on one of the prettiest goals that the Varsity has registered this year. Joe Patrick, who had been banished two minutes earlier for a leg check, came out of the penalty box to take a pass from Eaton, bring it down the right boards and pass across to Austic, who blasted a corner shot through the Queens goalie...
Many Californians will never forget the thrill they experienced when Jockey Adams rode six winners in a row (five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer...
...Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that he was after the lieutenant's job. Last week in Jersey City, Common Pleas Judge Thomas H. Brown finished hearing the case without a jury, meditated for a moment, and said: "It is the solemn conclusion of the court that this...
...bulky wooden fender and toppled into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when the fender fell on both of them. Stunned, Wyly clung to his stevedore until rescuers hauled both men out, took the stevedore, his leg broken, to the longshoremen's union hospital...