Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw, Haines, Newell and Ware and Dr. Harding. Mr. Stevens gave the plans for the University crews, saying that until the spring recess there would be three University crews, and after the recess only two. The emphasis in coaching all men will be a smooth recovery and a powerful leg-drive throughout the whole pull-though. There will be no jerk at the finish...
...street. From a yellow slip of paper in his hand he read the official bulletin announcing that Mr. Wilson's death had taken place five minutes earlier. Many years before he entered the Presidency he had suffered a thrombosis, a blood clot in the artery of one leg. While still President of Princeton University, he had practically lost the sight of one of his eyes from a retinal hemorrhage. At the time when he took office in 1913, his doctors were skeptical whether he would live through a four-year term of office, because he was suffering from incipient...
...Harvard five that takes the floor against the Orange and Blue this evening will be the Strongest that Coach Wachter can muster. Captain Gordon has entirely recovered from his trouble-some leg injury, and he is counted upon to lead his team's attack...
...proves her liberality; C. Haddon Chambers?"no matter what his income might be, he always lived beyond it;" Hall Caine?"he believes what he writes;" Marie Corelli?"per-ennially youthful in appearance, and caustic in conviction;" Sarah Bem-hardt, on losing her leg: "Patience, my dear Marbury, I will soon hop in to you;" Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her diminutive canine, Nanky-Poo; "inimitable George M. Cohan," who wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted...
...long relay with Yale was the University's almost from the start. Geilfuss of Yale and Allen exchanged the pole twice in the early laps of the opening leg, but the latter finally asserted his mastery. Chapin, following him, received a ten-yard lead, and passed it on to his successor, Cutcheon with 15 yards more, while Watters, at anchor, started 40 yards ahead of Chapman, and finished with a half-lap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds...