Word: leggedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The event attracted droves-townspeople, tourists, buyers from Texas and Michigan. They climbed the wide, stone front steps flanked by two enormous iron urns, to view the treasures inside: crystal-and-brass chandeliers, a heaving sea of mildewed objects, corniced walnut wardrobes, marble-topped bureaus-some 10,000 numbered items...
* Hitler himself once confided to Hermann Rauschning that the Brown Shirts were bandy-legged incompetent rabble.
In their homes, Britons pulled table like, steel-legged Morrison shelters into living rooms, broke off conversations to dive under them at every roar. In pubs and cafes, chatter stilled while diners and drinkers ducked under tables.
Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the...
One-Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar...