Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon at 3.30 o'clock on Soldiers Field. With an extra day in which to rest after the Princeton game last Saturday, Herrmann will again be in condition to start on the mound for the University. Jenkins has not yet recovered from the muscle injury he received in his leg and will probably be unable to return to the line-up until the second game with Princeton next Saturday...
...year of these extraordinarily careful preparations and the natural advantages of the very level country between Chicago and Cheyenne are expected to make this night leg of the service almost as safe as day flying...
Contents of a crocodile's stomach (research conducted by the Royal Zoological Society of London) : Eleven brass arm rings, three coiled wire armlets, one glass bead necklace, 14 arm and leg bones (not all human), three spinal columns, one length bark cord (used by colored porters to carry bundles), 18 stones of assorted sizes, several porcupine quills. (The crocodile lived in Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa...
...over 200 roles, among them Hamlet and her other celebrated masculine part, l'Aiglon. Bernhardt was almost fanatically patriotic, and engaged extensively in war work both in the War of 1870 and the World War. It was during the latter that she was forced to have her leg amputated, an operation to which she submitted with spirits unimpaired. She died cheerfully, jesting with those about her, discussing the details of her burial. She had always been fascinated by the idea of death. Among the fantastic tales centering about her is one of a skull in her pos session inscribed...
...Freshmen won the interclass relay in spite of the strong bid of the Seniors on the final leg, when Vinton Chapin '23 nearly overtook R. G. Allen '26, who had been given a large start by his team-mates. The other members of the 1926 team were W. R. Chase, J. C. McGlone, and F. P. Kane...