Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bound from Istres, France to Udine, Italy, an American C-47 splintered against the 6,600-ft. peak of Cheval Blanc Mountain, killed the crew of four, three American wives and five children on the last leg of a journey to join husbands and fathers stationed in Trieste...
Last week, at the University of North Carolina, Psychologist Charles R. Elliott pronounced himself satisfied with two years of tests on Max Sherover's cerebrograph-a combination record-player, electric clock and pillow microphone. Elliott had selected 15 three-letter words (boy, egg, say, art, run, not, sir, leg, bag, row, ice, out, age, box, eat) and recorded them. Then he picked 40 students, all with perfect hearing, as his guinea pigs...
...crews during their near at hand. Your correspondent was much at home in these "diggin's and doings" (every time I get a good start to write, I'm summoned by a nurse to be X-rayed, to have a needle injected into my arm, or to have my leg pulled on the first floor), having the previous year been captain of the freshman crew in which, believe it or not, the stroke-oar position was occupied by none other than the now "first citizen of Boston," who, being a sea-dog, should have been was a landlubber. I refer...
...mile relay test against Holy Cross and Brown, converted sprinter Harvey Thayer proved he could go a full quarter mile when he opened up a five yard lead on the first leg. Al Ruby and Dave Hamblett held this bulge and Jim Wheeler was able to coast home in the clear when Brown's anchor man, Royce Crimmius, run into him and fell down on the curve leading into the backstretch of the final...
...Ruby, scheduled to run the second leg tonight, provides perhaps the strongest wallop. Ruby, Wheeler and Thayer, by the way, all got their cinder schooling in Milton. Ruby was a star sprinter and quarter miler for the High School in 1944-45, the same year Thayer was cleaning up across town at the Academy. Wheeler set an Academy quarter mile record a couple of years earlier...