Word: limberness
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...Paul Jessup, limber-muscled 6-ft.-7-in. onetime football captain of University of Washington: the world's discus record, with a toss of 169 ft. 8 7/8 in. at the National A. A. U. games at Pittsburgh in bad weather. Los Angeles A. C. scored most points?46. twice as many as the San Francisco Olympic Club which took second place...
...limber Brobdingnagian hulked about Paris last week. Paltry Panams (Parisians) peered at his great height, 6 ft. 8 1/2 in., at his tall bulk, 265 Ib. This, they told each other, was Jose Santa, the Portuguese. Fabulously for a European Latin in the first round of his first Paris fight, he had knocked out his opponent...
...aggregation arrived yesterday but did not test the Stadium cinders because Dennis Enright did not want the soft track ruined in any way. Southern California and Stanford, the latter the favorite to repeat its victory of last year, will check in today and both will in all probability limber up in the Stadium. Other teams from the East and the Middle West are expected in tomorrow but the bulk of the competitors will not come to Cambridge until Thursday...
...lagniappe'' (Sept. 23, p. 13), easily a dollar's worth of word and unfortunately not included in many abridged dictionaries, recalls Mark Twain who, in Life on the Mississippi reported pickling up an excellent word, worth traveling to New Orleans to get-"a nice, limber, impressive, handy word-'Lagniappe.' They pronounce it lanny...
...jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode on to finish second. Billy Barton has been in England since autumn waiting for March 22. A few weeks ago, after frosts that kept the turf hardened, he was taken to Tenby, on the sheltered southern coast of Wales, to limber up in the sands. Now he is pronounced fit although there were rumors last week that he was coughing and would not run. Eleven years old, a gelding, he was bred in Kentucky but not to race for steeples. He began as only a fair sprinter and passed through several hands before...