Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sande's record of $3,034,858. And by retiring this year he will cut himself off from another record: 46 years of jockeying, set by Great Britain's John Osborne. As a public figure, however, Steve Donoghue has equaled any of them. When he broke his leg during a race in 1930, King George V sent his personal best wishes for a quick recovery. Already well known to British cinema audiences, he appeared on the U. S. screen last spring in a Derby picture called Wings of the Morning, where his silks shone in Technicolor...
Almost everyone returned in satisfactory condition to start the scrimmages immediately if Harlow had wished to emulate Princeton. Captain Russ Allen, however, showed up with an infected leg caused by a cut while on a hike. George Roberts was a couple of days late in returning from Europe and was held out of the opening scrimmages, but is in there taking his daily licks...
...years ago the Old Prospector shrewdly agreed to help give "Mitch" a leg toward Ottawa and the Prime Ministry. Mr. Wright was persuaded by his onetime mining broker, rambunctious young Clement George McCullagh, who bought two newspapers and today Canadian journalists call him "an incipient Hearst." Far from rich himself, Mr. McCullagh paid $2,325,000 for the Toronto Mail and Empire. Its 120,000 circulation was the largest of any Canadian morning paper, and he merged it with the Toronto Globe (85,000) which he had bought for just under $900,000. Today another $4,000,000 is being...
...presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians in the arts of civilization. Continuing northward. Fray Junipero by 1782 completed his rosary of missions and was given the power of confirmation which usually is possessed only by bishops. During three years, despite a crippled leg and an ailment in his much abused chest. Fray Junipero revisited all the California missions, confirmed 5,309 Indians. In 1784 Junipero Serra died, was buried at San Carlos Borromeo mission near Carmel on the fog-swept Monterey peninsula...
Pulling his leg again? Well, the Vagabond would fix that. He would himself talk in riddles. So, "Freshmen," he replied, "are future alumni. They are students in their first year, who are called Freshmen to distinguish them from the other future alumni, the students who have already attended college for a year or more...