Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition of the past few years has thrown over Harvard-Dartmouth hockey meetings a titular glamor. In 1926, the two sextets, Crimson and Green, came neck and neck down the home stretch of the ice season, and a 3 to 2 victory gave Harvard the mythical crown of the eastern ice. Last year, after an early 4 to 2 loss, the Indians rallied in the second game to battle through three overtime periods to a 3 to 2 tie and a share in the glory of the championship...
...stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they all live close to the oceans, Professor Robert Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia reasons: "Sea areas and probably sea foods have an influence in reducing the stature by increasing the iodine intake. [The thyroid gland in the neck utilizes the iodine and controls bodily growth.] . . . Looked at in its broadest sense, environment molds the individual, selection retains the fittest under different environments and heredity carries on the results...
...flapped along the body of the car. Then the wind tangled its tassels in the spokes of a wheel. Abruptly and terribly the dancer who had carried a thousand light banners lay in the dust of a summer road, completely still, a red scarf pulled tight around her neck...
...like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified, he scampered...
...Story: But for the neck, the weakest portion of the spine is the small-of-the-back. Old-time office chairs strain the spinal column. Armless revolving chairs pinch the back of the legs where the arteries come to the surface above the knee. This eventuates a cramped sensation. As remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter...