Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rick Cutler provided the great surprise of the evening by turning over on his back for the dorsal leg of the 150-yard medley. He gave Bill Drucker a close race, and the grad trio of Cutler, Greg Jameson, and Charley Hutter tied the Varsity combination of Drucker, Max Kraus, and Dave Stearns in 1:25.2. This ruled Cutler out of the 220, and Captain Frannie Powers and Bus Curwen pulled away from Ed Hewitt...
...libraries and packhorse booksellers spread novels to eager readers, mostly female. The "inordinate passion prevalent for novels" galled Thomas Jefferson, who thought they bred "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and disgust towards all the real businesses of life." Puritans and preachers classified novel reading with such female indelicacies as leg-crossing and nose-blowing. First U. S. novel appeared in 1789. The native art had three great models...
...picture, they won't even admit themselves to a cheerful or a gloomy outlook. They have three veterans back from their 41 to 28 victory in the opener last year, but the best of them. Captain Ronic Samuels may be out of the game with a bum leg. Three more men have shown promise but have never played before in a varsity game...
Last week, as the Yale varsity wound up a disastrous season by losing to Harvard (28-to-0), the Yale lightweights, winning all but one of their games, finished in a tie with Penn for the league championship-Yale's second leg on the seven-year-old Sanford Trophy. Princeton, with two-and-a-half legs on the cup, finished fifth. Lafayette, undefeated and untied in varsity play this year, failed to win a game...
Besides chitchat about her comings&goings, Miss McBride includes on her programs discussions of art exhibits, flower shows, factories in operation, etc., changes pace by interviewing visiting celebrities. Helping her gather her material now are two researchers, who do preliminary leg work which Miss McBride follows up after she reads their reports. Only written material she uses on the air are a few scribbled notes on a sheet of yellow paper. In her six years on the air, she has received over a million letters. Folksiest broadcast she ever made involved her redheaded nephew on the occasion of his first...