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