Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rearrange and brace the whole weakened structure he designed a shoe with a high, stiff, snug counter. This keeps the heel directly under the tibia, puts the heel in a straight line with the base and tip of the big toe, warps the instep into a springy arch. Shoes, according to Dr. Schwartz, must have heels to help throw the body forward while walking. Men's heels should be supported eight eighths of an inch-from the ground, women's fourteen eighths, says...
...Lenin's big hour, when the Revolution had brought him hurrying back to Russia, the tone of his letters hardly changes. He writes Karl Radek in Stockholm: "The position is arch-complicated and arch-interesting." But with Kerensky out of the way and Lenin and his Bolsheviks in charge at last, his discursive letters shrink to notes and telegrams, their subjects swell to dictatorial size: "Advise you send them six months forced labour in mines. . . . Today at all costs Rostov must be taken. . . . Mobilize all forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars...
...nation's individuals are assiduously practicing thrift, economy and budget-balancing, that is precisely the time for the Government to go into debt for compensatory public spending. Of course, this was the underlying fiscal philosophy of the whole New Deal, and Mr. Eccles came to be rated the arch-apologist of spending. Last week Mr. Eccles suddenly reversed his economic field, to the shocked surprise of all but a few who had not forgotten his oft-made point that his theory worked also vice versa...
...that your visit to Libya has bound the East to the West and has united Islam and Italy! Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual Tripoli Sample Fair by Il Duce. a dash by air almost up to the French frontier, a performance of Oedipus Rex in the ancient Roman amphitheatre near Tunisia, and finally a second grand...
...late Bruno Richard Hauptmann had ever had a chauffeur, and if this chauffeur should now be hired by Mrs. Charles Lindbergh, her decision would be no more remarkable than that made in Shanghai last week by beauteous, bang-browed Mme Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Chinese Dictator, arch-apostle of China's sententious New Life Movement, and a graduate of Wellesley...