Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
Captain Bob Owen's Blue cindermen are not at top strength for the annual Yale-Harvard track meet to be run on the Eli track tomorrow. Comprehensives and final exams have wreaked havoc with the daily practice sessions, high hurdler Dick Osborne is still suffering from the leg injury he received last week, and consequently may not run, and the Elis' showing in the Princeton and Ivy League meets has not been too encouraging...
Though shorter and less dangerous than the famed Maryland Hunt Cup race, the Iroquois (three miles, 18 jumps) turned out to be tough. Galsac, the favorite, bowed a tendon on the next-to-last jump. Another horse broke a leg, was destroyed. Winner was Rockmayne, a bay gelding racing in the colors of Louisville's Barbara Bullitt, cousin of Ambassador William Bullitt. His time: 5 min., 41 2/5 sec. Her prize: $1,000 and a leg on an old silver cup made in 1820 for the Earl of Coventry...
Coach Dick Snibbs will put the same ten on the field as he has fielded in the past. Captain Doug Anderson will lead the attack with Fred Benedix and Bill Ierardi. Ierardi's leg is weak from a charley-horse received in the Dartmouth game and if he is forced to retire Summer Simmons or George Hanford will come...
...race wasn't drawing entrants for some reason," Schmidt said, "until we got the high wheel bikes." Schmidt denied that men were willing to mount the high-wheelers because i would put them out of reach of admiring Radcliffe girls. "The pedal ratio offers a good opportunity to increase leg action for the push to Smith," he explained...