Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduction of the helmet, shoulder pad, and other protective garb, has made it possible for the players to take more chances than was possible when they went upon the field with their heads and bodies unprotected from the onslaught of swinging lacrosse sticks. In addition, the exact rules which now define body checking have brought about more daring play. The check in lacrosse is equivalent to the tackle in football, save that it differs in technique. Yet it is no less spectacular, and puts into lacrosse the same smash of physical contact so enjoyed by the spectators...
...result of the agitation leaves Yale alone to face the music. If the hand of the News has been responsible for the unveiling of sordid truths, it must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper...
...gallery of a Manhattan collector. It is the work, experts say, of Praxiteles*-a figure twelve inches high representing the goddess rising from a broken wave. The arms, beautifully modeled, are intact; the legs are gone below the thighs; the lovely, epicene face is turned toward the shoulder. Was Phryne the model? Was the pose inspired by the famous painting by Appeles? All that is known is that a peasant dug it up in a brown field near Benghasi in 1902. Ferargil prices...
...reward reaped by a donor is the attainment of purposes for which he gave. It is this which lends the Law School drive particular promise. The School offers to train better lawyers where it has been training excellent ones and to shoulder, besides, a work of civic importance...
...Ruff (an Airedale). While they did not actually talk to each other, they had found that by pats, grimaces and tender looks, they could communicate better than much older people. In the daytime the great crinkly dog padded by the side of the boy, whose head barely reached his shoulder; at night he curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with...