Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Seven hundred limber-limbed men and women walked past a box in the rococo ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last fortnight and put into it small bits of paper. When all had filed by the box was removed, opened and the bits of paper sorted. Presently Thomas M. Sheehy of Chicago rose and in a hushed silence read a list of names and a list of dances. Thus were announced four dances and one novelty (from a field of 60) which the Dancing Masters of America have officially elected to sponsor and will endeavor to popularize throughout the land...
...Paul Jessup, limber-muscled 6-ft.-7-in. onetime football captain of University of Washington: the world's discus record, with a toss of 169 ft. 8 7/8 in. at the National A. A. U. games at Pittsburgh in bad weather. Los Angeles A. C. scored most points?46. twice as many as the San Francisco Olympic Club which took second place...
...limber Brobdingnagian hulked about Paris last week. Paltry Panams (Parisians) peered at his great height, 6 ft. 8 1/2 in., at his tall bulk, 265 Ib. This, they told each other, was Jose Santa, the Portuguese. Fabulously for a European Latin in the first round of his first Paris fight, he had knocked out his opponent...
...aggregation arrived yesterday but did not test the Stadium cinders because Dennis Enright did not want the soft track ruined in any way. Southern California and Stanford, the latter the favorite to repeat its victory of last year, will check in today and both will in all probability limber up in the Stadium. Other teams from the East and the Middle West are expected in tomorrow but the bulk of the competitors will not come to Cambridge until Thursday...