Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse wrangler and ham-and-egg fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room...
...their right to decide what their daughter should wear to school. For the five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White disapproved of her corduroy slacks. When her parents argued that Shirley wore slacks because of a leg operation, White replied that he wanted to see a doctor's affidavit. The school board turned down an appeal from the Richardsons' attorney...
...gift was received just after the Divinity School had reached the $4,000,000 goal in the first leg of the current drive. The goal was reached when the drive received $250,000 last Wednesday in a bequest from the late Mrs. T.W. Lamont...
...eventual exposure of ten inches of leg, although covered by gaiters, was advocated by Helen Gilbert Ecob in 1893. Her book, The Well Dressed Woman, proposed "the emancipation of the body": from top to bottom, the removal of veils and a few inches of skirt, and in the middle the abandoning of the corset. The most serious hazard to health and freedom of the body was the corset which averaged seventy-five pounds of restrainment. "How shall women breathe?" she asks...
Football fans will remember Lewis as varsity wingback. Sidelined during his junior year with a leg injury, Lewis came back this year to score the Crimson's lone touchdown against Yale at New Haven...