Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about April 1, to rove for the Times wherever he chooses for as long as he chooses. Fourteen years of alert, thoroughgoing work in Russia have made him the Times' most valuable foreign correspondent, but hard Muscovite winters and office routine have frayed his nerves, pained his footless leg. His successor will be able Harold Norman Dennv, longtime TIME...
...shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly...
...Norman Burnett ran into a howling snow-storm on the Cleveland-Chicago route. The ceiling closed down and he missed a beacon. Then his gasoline line clogged and he went into a tight spin. He had no mail so he took to his parachute. In landing he fractured his leg...
Score--Yale 3, Harvard 1. Goals--First period: Hasler (Moseley) (7.29). Second period: R. Shepard (Robinson-Rodd) (7.27), R. Shepard (18.22). Third period: Cooke (Robinson) (18.16). Penalties--First period: Robson (tripping), Stoddard (tripping), Gilligan (tripping), Gilligan (interference). Second period: Low (leg check), Robson (tripping), Watts (tripping), Wilmerding (charging), Robson (slashing). Third period: C. Mills (board check), Dow (hooking), Hasler (handling the puck), Beale (handling the puck), Robinson (holding). Referees--Cleary and Foley. Time--Three 20-minute periods...
Nesmith, of the home team, was the star of the game, contributing two of the St. Paul tallies, and being instrumental in the third score. Jim Ford, the aggressive center of the '37 outfit, was prevented from assuming his usual stellar role by a leg injury early in the game...