Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind leg...
...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...
...Brenton's Cove Light Ship to West Chop on Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then...
Must a headmaster be a contortionist, or is "Big Dick" Richards an exception? TIME does not specify, but the description (Aug. 10) is vivid: "Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head...
...sheepsticker) snake. As the frog began disappearing head first down the schaapstecker's narrow gullet, a puffy night adder moved near. Seeing the adder, the schaap-tecker gulped hard to get its meal down safely; but the quick adder got hold of the frog's right hind leg, started swallowing the prize from that...