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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile relay, run against Holy Cross and Brown, an excellent second leg by Al Ruby gave the Varsity a lead it never relinquished. All three runners were bunched closely together at the end of the first 440 yards, but Ruby's spurt and the loss of a baton by the second Holy Cross runner gave Harvard a five yard lead. Flint was pushed slightly in the final hundred yards, but maintained the same five-yard advantage as he breasted the tape...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Four Gains Victory In Mile Relay | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Brown finished second, and Holy Cross never returned to contention after the second leg lapse. The Varsity quintet's time, 3:30.4, was three-tenths of a second slower than its performance in Briggs Cage against Tufts and Northeastern. Ruby, Flint, Dave Hamblett, and Jim Wheeler made up the winning combination...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Four Gains Victory In Mile Relay | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...straighten his legs, he can walk," said Dr. Deaver. "One good muscle in his leg is all we need; we can work with that. The average person doesn't use more than 10% of his capacity. There's a great reserve to be tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take Up Thy Bed | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...slim, dark-haired youth, minus a leg, wheeled himself in, then hopped nimbly up & down steps on crutches. "You probably read about Harold in the papers," said Deaver. "He's the boy who was smashed against a storefront by an automobile last fall, the day after he joined the Marines. When the surgeons amputated, I told them, 'Just give me six inches of stump below the knee; that's all I want.' When he gets his artificial leg, you won't know he has a disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take Up Thy Bed | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...Steps. In Salisbury, Mass., William Murray tripped outside his house, broke his left leg, yelled for his wife, who rushed out to him, tripped, broke her left leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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