Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful drive by the Jersey-men at the mile marked failed to gain any ground and they fell behind the Engineers. Different from their splashing contestants the Crimson blades kept the stroke down until the last minute when a snappy leg drive at 36 jumped the Bolles boat into a lead of a length and a half of open water...
...Lightbody was not the hero of the mile relay Saturday. Dick Gill of Boston College would have beaten him if it hadn't been for a ten yard deficit at the start of their last leg. As it was Gill closed eight yards between them, running his quarter in the excellent time of 47.8 seconds. The Harvard team which was composed of Joe Donnelly, Frannie King, Tudor Richards, and Lightbody won the race despite Gill's performance in 3 min. 22.6 seconds...
...date none of the men have shown themselves to be anything more than mediocre. Norm Blotner, Ralph Livingston, and Joe Magurn have had the starting call to date, but they are being hard pressed by Ben Ferris and Dick Lewis. Livingston has been hampered all season by a bad leg, which has slowed him down considerably...
When Sir Abe Bailey, rich & witty South African gold miner, had one of his legs amputated last summer, Capetown thought he was dead, dropped its flags to half mast.* Last week, suffering from phlebitis (vein inflammation), the doughty 73-year-old lost his other leg, two days later issued a personal bulletin declaring his operation successful, his condition satisfactory...
...Said Sir Abe when he heard of the false report: "They won't be able to pull my leg any more...