Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first broken neck reported this season, not immediately fatal, was that of George Stevens, of Sherril, N. Y., playing for Cortland Normal School against St. John's Military Academy...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 spent the summer at Marblehead Neck. He told a CRIMSON reporter that he had carried on profound research work in the modern novel, with practical illustrations. When asked if he intended to publish any of this research work he replied, "You misunderstand me. I spent my summer sitting on my front porch reading modern novels...
...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...
...derwent an operation for the removal of an obstruction to the duct of one of his salivary glands. Said he: "The obstruction had to be removed . . . it makes talking difficult for a few days. . . . Meanwhile, the less I say the sooner the cut in the side of my neck will heal...
...Boston and Pittsburgh it is much the same; ownership rules, editorship bends the neck. Only in these two cities and in some others is the situation far graver in that it involves the integrity of the news columns, which in New York fare on the whole free from advertisers' and other privileged pressure. ... If journalism is a profession then the sole business of the 'business side' of a newspaper is to nourish the 'editorial side...