Word: leggedness
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Short-legged runners often have trouble getting started. A poor start was what beat Eddie Tolan of Michigan, holder of the official world's 100-yd. dash record (9.5 sec.) in the intercollegiate championships at Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B...
Hanover, N. H., May 15.--Despite the cold weather that rather rudely descended down upon Hanover today a goodly number of the Dartmouth college students continued to wear their short pants today and walked about the streets bare legged. Some of the more timid souls resorted back to the conventional...
All the illuminating bits of news listed above are quoted from the headlines of a yesterday's issue of one of the outstanding newspapers in the country. The same paper, it is true, carried full accounts of the Indian riots, senatorial goings-on, and other more legitimate news. The events...
Evangeline Cory Booth, U. S. Commander of the Salvation Army. She sent the committee a long endorsement of Prohibition, contended that the drop in the average age of girls "rescued" by her service's maternity home from 23 to 19 years was due not to 'legged liquor but...
Author David Herbert Lawrence's latest novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, had to be printed privately in Paris, pirated editions in the U. S. and England were book-legged to collectors of erotica. Authorities almost unanimously adjudged it obscene, pornographic. It was the story of an illicit love...