Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams in the prep school class will compete for a leg on the Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Championship Cup, donated by Arthur W. Stevens '97 and given permanently to the school which wins it five times. Andover has won the trophy for two successive years and will battle Exeter for the leg on it tomorrow. Although Huntington School has been runner-up both years in this class, it was defeated last week-end 54-14 by Exeter, which has an exceptionally strong team and which is expected to battle Andover for team honors...
...passengers were strapped to their seats ready for the landing at Burbank. As Passenger Arthur Robinson recalled: "Suddenly the plane began to drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne...
...began aiding the others. Stewardess Esther Jo Connor, despite a broken ankle, did what she could for her passengers, all but two of whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried...
Members of the championship rifle team, which last year won their first leg on the Hearst Naval R.O.T.C. trophy, began practicing this week for a series of eight matches to be concluded in March in the Hearst shooting contest...
LICKS CHAMP," a shot of a husky dancer clamping a leg lock on a wrestler's neck; "SHIP WRECKED!" with a preview of drowned bodies cast...