Word: vertebrae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
After the match, Lewis was taken to a hospital, where it was said that he was suffering from a strained sacroiliac joint (that part of the vertebra that joins the pelvis). His discharge from the hospital was considered imminent, but there were plenty of opinions that said he would never Wrestle again...
...forwards only letter men reported. These were Clark Hodder '25, center, and W. M. Austin, '25, left wing. G. W. Burgess '25 and P. W. Chase '25, both of whom won their "H's" last year, were at the rink but were not dressed for practice. Burgess dislocated a vertebra while leading the cheering at New Haven last Saturday and will be out for a week or more. Chase, along with Captain E. M. Beals '25, N. S. Howe '26, and J. W. Hammond '25, all football men, will not be permitted to report for practice until December 8. Isadore...
...rather a pity that the Freshman number of the Lampoon, something supposedly, to agitate the thoracic vertebra of the very youngest class, should be the first number of the year. It is generally such a lame affair, for which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles...