Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Major Carlo P. del Prete, Rome-Brazil flyer (TIME, July 16); following the amputation of his right leg, injured in an airplane crash; in Rio de Janeiro Brazil...
...lost his own right leg when he, 13, substituted for a switchman who was off on a post-payday drunk, at a coal mine in Braidwood, Ill. He tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train; his right foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there...
...whom the medal had been cast was no happy man. Pain twitched his broken leg. Enemies were reviling him as, "That Coward Nobile! The first airship captain who was first to leave his ship!" (TIME, July...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke a leg...
...Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans! Outlaw Banking!" Depressed, discouraged, the bond market fell to 98.29, the year's new low. But the stockmarket, still optimistic, held its own, advanced a little...