Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unknown to the Courant's artist, and in depicting the fair forms of his fellow-collegians he is unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square...
...Harriman is apt to hurry the recover, and also lacks fire in the stroke. The finish of the stroke with his shoulders and upper part of his body is one of the best. He bends his inside arm just before taking the catch, and at times inclines his inside leg out too much in the same part of the stroke. He tries hard and will make a most graceful...
...stared at me in a vacant way, and, as he drew from the leg of one of his high boots a suspicious-looking bottle, he muttered, "Sixteen hundred and seventy seven...
...runner of Canada, best two in three, - Herrick to have two yards' start. Herrick won the first heat in ten and one fourth seconds, coming in ahead fully the distance allowed. When two thirds of the way in the second, he (Herrick) slipped and strained a cord in his leg, and was obliged to give up. Summerhase took the second heat in ten and one half seconds, and ran the third alone in eleven seconds. Herrick was thus disabled for the game. Fortunately Mr. Russell was able to play, and, donning Herrick's suit, took his place in the field...
...soon proceeded, the Canadians still acting on the defensive. About twenty minutes after the game began, an accident occurred which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals on either side, and an hour and ten minutes to play. The game went on, fiercer than ever...