Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time, this Saturday, the Freshmen will be represented on the boards. With Lerner and Hollands out with leg injuries, this Saturday's team will consist of Light body, MacDonald, Mason Fernald, and Sherman Hoar. If Light body and MacDonald can repeat their respective 50 and 52-second quarters, and Fernald and Hoar perform up to expectations, the team will in all probability come home with the medal...
Suffering from leg ulcers, poor blood circulation and a weak heart since last December, 79-year-old Pope Pius XI rose from bed. walked a few, unsteady steps, exclaimed: "You see. . . . Thanks...
Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...
Assembled in Basle last week for the monthly board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements ("The World Bank"), bankers of Europe spent a large part of their expensive time sputtering about those incomprehensible Americans. It seemed that in trying to uphold its leg of the three-way gold accord with Britain and France, the U. S. was making the game of international finance entirely too complicated. One banker, related the New York Times, told a story about the governor of a small European central bank "who had come to the World Bank in despair, declaring the American instructions regarding...
...only leg the college has to stand on in keeping this rule on the books is the doubtful postulate that a man will absorb more by osmosis in four years than he will by continued application in three. The surprising minimum of effort expended by some students tends to refute this belief. The point here is that many students do not seize the opportunity provided for true education at Harvard, and would not if the period were extended form four to forty years. These men do only the required forms of work, and the time they wish to take...