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Word: thighed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the students' or tutors' quarters. For the privilege of living in either of the House Masters' residences many a scholar would be sorely tempted to sign away his soul in the Black Man's Book. Imagine having for your study a room finished in dark oak panelling, cupboards thigh high, and book shelves on up to the ceiling, with chimneypiece to match-all flooded with sunshine from the spacious are of a bow window. The House Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRICE LAUDS HOUSE PLAN AND NEW BUILDINGS IN CURRENT BULLETIN ISSUE | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

...Percy Williams, famed Canadian sprinter, with a pulled thigh muscle, over a sodden track: the 100-yd. dash in the fine time of 9.9 sec. at the Empire Games in Hamilton, Ont. England, with 25 points, won the meet; Canada was second with 17; South Africa third with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Picadors' right legs must be sheathed in metal to mid-thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Bull Rules | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Moss grown on a human skull, the thigh bone of a hanged man, the ashes of a coal-black cat's head, animal excrement, black tips of crab's claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viper Heads | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

Rescuers found Segrave half floating in his life-preserver. His arms were broken, a thigh and rib were fractured, a lung was punctured. He died that night, happy in the knowledge that the record was his. His mechanic was drowned. His engineer was badly hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Segrave | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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