Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grade U. S. college crews, Coach Connibear began by studying physics, reading books on rowing. Having mastered rowing theory, he devised his own means of putting it into practice. He raised the rigging in the boat to give more clearance above his oarsmen's thighs, thus permitting more leg power. He cut short the "lay-back," theretofore considered the most essential part of the stroke. Unfamiliar with nautical terms, Connibear coached his crews in baseball slang. Before his first big race, the Washington faculty tried to have him ousted. After it, when Washington had beaten California...
Grand Hose Knight, a job at least analogous to president, is Frank H. Ellis, a Pittsburgh filling station operator and treasurer of NAPR. Grand Knight Ellis, who at ten lost his right leg hopping a freight train, also owns a paint and feed business in Pittsburgh's South Side steel district, once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Sipping a bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business...
James was her husband; his sleep was sound as long as she was there beside him. Her 13-year-old son Robert had lost a leg when he was a little boy; it was easy to imagine, though impossible to tell by watching him, what he dreamed about...
Followed by an automobile driven by a friend, James F. Gerrity '39 and Francis W. Scofield '40 ran seven of the 26 grueling miles of the B. A. A. Marathon yesterday. Leading 30 contestants at the time, the Crimson plodders were forced to withdraw because of indigestion, leg and shin cramps, blisters, fallen arches, and various other ailments...
...fellow-privates of the 157th Indiana, he fought and ran and came back to fight again. When the interminable day was ended he neither knew nor cared which side had won: all he thought about as the surgeon gave him chloroform was, not to let them cut off his leg at the knee...