Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Yale tried mightily to ring up a world's record in the Medley Relay, the only record-breaking of the evening came when ace backstroker Danny Dannenbaum swam the first leg of the Medley Relay in 59.8 seconds to eclipse the old mark of 60.7 seconds set by Joe Burns two years...
England liked Gil Winant, and showed it by dropping him out of public notice. At a luncheon shortly after his arrival, the crowd insisted on a speech; he stood up, shifted his weight from one long leg to the other through four straight minutes of agonizing silence, finally said softly: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place." After that they usually let him alone...
...hospital is tall, boyish Edward Archie Mclntosh, who cleaned out a Jap machine-gun nest after his own scouting party had been wiped out and he himself had been horribly wounded in the right leg. Although he is cheerful and chipper, his friends reported that his main worry now is whether "my girl will like a fellow with only one leg...
Probably the most thrilling event of the night was the final relay, in which. "Big John" Eusden, swimming the anchor leg, showed grit, speed and stamina in nosing out Princeton's Frank Masland. Previous to this race, Eusden had taken a second and third place in the 50 and 100 yard free styles respectively...
...Yale meet last week. Although he jumped against the Elis, it didn't do him any good, and he was tired afterwards. So Jaakko gave him a week's rest. But in his first jump Saturday, the pulled it again, and although he tried to jump on a taped leg, he had no luck. A second for Tom would have tied the meet, and with one or two more breaks, the score would have been different. But there is small use grousing because there is no doubt that the Dartmouth have a very powerful squad up there in the hills...