Word: os
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most disgusting is to find a fairly accurate fact-reporting periodical loosely quote just to mitigate smarting Nordic pride. Blatantly ignorant, TIME has gobbled up Yale's McGall's simple reasoning that Negro supremacy in certain track events is due to the os calcis, larger in Negroes than in whites (TIME, June...
...Hubbard, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...
...college feverishly prepares to appear in knitteds, the deep significance of the trend is apt to escape us, as we superficially exclaim over so and os's fancy sweater...
...revolutionary purpose was not adequate, there is another section which contains this startling paragraph abolishing the necessity of bothering with such a troublesome thing os "evidence". Here is the prohibition...
...Rogers 'OS, professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and best known for his advising college men to be snobs, will be chairman of the debate and guide the radio audience, which is to act as judges...