Word: shinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine Nyon nations- Britain and France doing most of the work. Although Britain was willing to court Italy by offering her the patrol of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the space between Corsica, Sardinia and Italy's shin, Italy indignantly rejected the offer as "unequal." Submarines attacking neutral merchant ships in these patrolled lanes, "contrary to the rules of international law as laid down in the London Naval Treaty of 1930" would be immediately hunted down and sunk...
...Author. Like his aspiring hero Harry Patterson, Clyde Brion Davis "has all his life been trying to unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow...
Followed by an automobile driven by a friend, James F. Gerrity '39 and Francis W. Scofield '40 ran seven of the 26 grueling miles of the B. A. A. Marathon yesterday. Leading 30 contestants at the time, the Crimson plodders were forced to withdraw because of indigestion, leg and shin cramps, blisters, fallen arches, and various other ailments...
Putting his Philadelphia Athletics through their training paces in Mexico City, 74-year-old Manager Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy ("Connie Mack") was hit in the right shin by a ball, injured so painfully that he was whisked by train to a San Antonio hospital on a stretcher...
...Glenn had quite a high school record when he came to K.U.", Jimmie went on to say, "but when he was put under my care his legs were in pretty bad shape. He had one of the worst cases of shin splints I have ever handled. He didn't do much of anything those first two years, and Glenn has oftened issued the statement that the only exercise he got in his Freshman and Sophomore years was on my rubbing table. Ever since then I have been his trainer and he comes to me whenever I am anywhere around...