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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more apparent that Hal Ulen had completely outmaneuvered Coach Leo Barry of the visitors. In Gibbons, Barry has a man capable of trimming Soltysiak in the butterfly event. In Schaper he had a man who could have won the medley, swimming the free-style leg in place of Porritt. Better Barry strategy would have used these men up before the relay...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: Ulenmen Make Short Work of Bruin Mermen, Winning 42-33 | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

Reliable backstroker Art Bosworth ripped off his 100 medley leg in the neighborhood of 1:01 and nosed out Wilcox of the Bruins in 1:41.7 in the regular 150-yard dorsal race. Dick Harris came through for a third...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: Ulenmen Make Short Work of Bruin Mermen, Winning 42-33 | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

...remnants of the Spanish Loyalist Army, ragged and footsore, fled last year over the Pyrenees into France, over 10,000 wounded stumbled along with them. Their torn, broken arms or legs were stiffly supported in filthy, foul-smelling plaster casts. French doctors, fearing development of gas gangrene, began to amputate, left & right. Before they had done much bone-sawing, they found to their amazement that cases of gangrene were very rare. Normally, even in arm or leg wounds which had been disinfected and bandaged, they could expect more than ten cases of gangrene per 1,000. But only a score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastered Wounds | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...three weeks. Her name was Diane Lewis, a 24-year-old rising starlet who began trouping in her parents' vaudeville act as soon as she could walk, played a small part in Warners' She Couldn't Say No, bits for M.G.M. Both used her chiefly for leg art. Such adolescent Hollywood revelers as Jackie Cooper, Johnny Downs, Tommy Wonder consider small (five-foot) and vivacious Diane Lewis witty, gay, wonderful at a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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