Word: limb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
Captain Torbie Macdonald continued to show gradual improvement in his battle with an ailing leg as the Harlowmen ran through an uneventful practice session yesterday. However, the possibility that he will play against Army remained small, for the Crimson leader still favors the injured limb...
George Carens of the Transcript: "If experience and power are to prevail tomorrow, Penn will subdue the Crimson. . . . It would be unwise to climb out on a limb and predict certain victory for the Red and Blue, but the Philadelphia visitors have fine poise and spirt...
From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...
...beaver, who knows when he is out on a limb, prepared to vacate...