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...fraternity. As a high-school freshman he stood around watching Ohio State's Star Sprinter George Simpson but the track coach put him into the hurdles instead. Last week, after winning the high hurdles, he seemed on his way to a low hurdles record when he pulled a leg tendon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Runners in the Wind | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Never-to-be-Forgotten | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

During the winter I happened to break one leg, with its adjacent rungs, of a black-and-gold chair of the type supplied to all dormitory rooms. I took the broken chair to the Janitor's Office, and forget about the matter until my term bill appeared with a charge for $5.68. I protested this unreasonable amount to the Bursar's Office, and received the following itemization: Carpenter stock, I left arm (it was actually a leg, but no matter)… $.60, I front rung $.07 (granted), I side rung $.07 (granted); Carpenter labor $3.00 (with the proper tools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "How Use Doth Breed a Habit in a Man" | 5/20/1932 | See Source »

...President. Several Communist deputies arrived in bright blue overalls and work shirts. Two Left Centre deputies arrived quarreling; one twice slapped the other's face. A senator and a deputy began a furious fist fight, blundered into War Veteran Deputy Louis Sevestre who has only one leg, knocked him down. But leading Paris papers called the proceedings "among the quietest in years, out of respect and homage to M. Doumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New President | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...loss of Meiklejohn will be keenly felt by the Crimson players, as will also that of Captain Cabot and Hardy, all three men being out with leg injuries. Stars for the Eli fifteen are expected to be Captain Winter, University hockey player, Taylor, University football star, McCreary, and Heyworth. On the Harvard side Sherman and Whitney are the backs who have shown up particularly well this season, while Megaw and Wittausch have proved among the best forwards. Potter at centre has also played an excellent game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTEEN TO FACE YALE TEAM THIS AFTERNOON | 4/30/1932 | See Source »

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