Word: limps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District of Columbia, dropped dead from a heart attack just as he was admitted to the grounds. Among those received was Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Scott of Linn Creek, Mo., who first attended a White House reception in 1862. When the gates shut, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge retired with limp hands to rest...
...backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois 7. Who writes this "stuff" for you? If this is a specimen of his sport news, better eliminate...
...backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow Illini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minnesota 20, Illinois...
Just a week ago in the Harvard Stadium Princeton's savage Tigers took the measure of a very limp Harvard football team, 34 to 0. "Fair Harvard was only fair," derided a New York football correspondent. Other New York papers were no kinder; the Boston journals sorry, but callously truthful. It was the most complete rout that Harvard has suffered since the '90's. Those who sat in the crowded Stadium saw a bewildered Crimson eleven, first wondering what under the sun Princeton was about; discovering that Princeton was there for business, and finally, allowing Princeton to go right ahead...
...nine rounds, the handsome, blond ring-idol of Europe had assaulted a dangerous foe, taken hard battering. In the tenth round, he had grovelled horribly on the floor, all but unconscious, then had arisen and torn into Tunney with dizzy, desperate courage, thunderously cheered by the crowd. Stretched limp in his dressing room afterwards, Carpentier assured questioners that he had been struck foully. Descamps echoed his charge, only adding that he felt sure the thrust had been accidental. Asked if he would now retire from the ring, having been beaten by Dempsey, Gibbons and Tunney, said Georges: "Never...