Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.V.C. (founded 1943; membership 9,000) has 65% of its strength still in service, thus still operates on a committee basis. Its greatest visible assets are its founder-chairman, cool, mustachioed Charles G. Bolte (rhymes with "whole day"), 25, who enlisted in the British army and lost a leg at El Alamein, its cautious approach to organization and its penchant for political action (the Senate has adopted two A.V.C. proposals for liberalizing the terms of farm loans to veterans...
...mental, if not physical, peak for the 1945 season. Their hopes for a successful Ivy League record blasted by a tremendous upset at the hands of Brown three weeks ago, the Elis came back in the second half of last week's Princeton game to gain a leg of the Big Three championship and begin a psychological upswing that will make them a tough team to beat at New Haven tomorrow afternoon...
Dick Harlow will not find his team at peak strength for the encounter, for Leo Flynn, sparkplug of the Cantabs' offense all season until his injury in the Merchant Marine game, will see little if any action in the Bowl. With his leg in almost perfect shape for the final contest this week, he pulled the tendon once again in a practice session Wednesday. Right end Bob-Champion is also a doubtful starter, but the chances are that he will see considerably more action than will Flynn...
...Wooden Leg in a Forest Fire...
...Navy today is in the same position cavalry was at the end of World War I. And by the time World War III arrives, a battleship will be about as useful as a wooden leg in a forest fire. I have spoken...