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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running events have been considerably weakened by the loss of Staff King, the 600 man, through probation, and Hal Wonson of the 1000 and mile with an injured leg...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: Indians Weak for Quad Meet, Sustain Injuries; Defeated by Bowdoin | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...Freshman swimming squads as Bob White carried off the gruelling 300-yard individual medley event, and Bill Drucker won the 150-yard backstroke in a neat 1:45.5. Frannie Powers actually beat his teammate, Bob White; in the medley by a touch but has disqualified for using an improper leg kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swimmers Capture Awards in Annual Carnival | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Doug Pirnie's three victories, the undefeated Freshman track team triumphed over Exeter Saturday 51 to 44. Pirnie won the 60-yard dash, 300-yard run, and broad jump and ran one leg in the winning relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Tracksters Defeat Strong Exeter Team, 51-44 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...policeman who could not stand the gaff, passed out with a loud expiration, and Vag leaped over his prostrate body to grab a handful of Valentine cards--frilly ones with Cupids and lace, uproarious ones with embarrassed beans, and sentimental ones with honey sayings. Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

...telling just how fast and how heavily Airacobra could strike. Out of the experimental stage and now plain P-39, it has a speed of 400 miles an hour with full military load. It is the fastest pursuit ship in the U. S. and probably in the world, can leg it a full 20 to 40 miles an hour faster on war missions than Germany's famed Messerschmitt 109 (which had to be stripped of its guns and precariously ''souped up" to set the international speed record of 469 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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