Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lone Crimson goal was made when Guild put a hard boot past Wilcox, the Yale goalie, early in the second period. At the half the Blue had tied the score, and in the last quarter they piled up two more tallies against the Jayvee-Freshman
Promoter of these deals is swart, shrewd, analytical Lawrence Mario Giannini, 48-son of famed father Amadeo Peter-who knows plenty about banking, has a vivid industrial imagination to boot. Mario, all but reared in a teller's cage, probably figures that the real future of bankers lies not in shuffling currency and checks but in production-which is not banking...
...Southwest Pacific, wearing the Silver Star for conspicuous service. He led an air hunt for Jap cruisers, found none, but shot up a couple of airdromes before returning to base. Jay Cooke III, great-grandson of the famed Civil War financier, an ex-socialite now a rock-jawed, boot-tough soldier, won a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves on maneuvers in Louisiana (see cut). Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler's 16-year-old torchsinging daughter Mimi went to Hollywood from Kentucky, won a screen test that won her a seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie...
Army came closest to a score when goalie Mike Keene ran out for the ball which bounced elusively away in front of the nets. Two Cadet forwards charged in and only a swift boot by fullback Ward Slingerland saved the game...
...typical case, a steelworker was horribly burned when molten metal filled his boot. After eight months of hospitalization and every type of conventional treatment from skin-grafting to sulfa drugs, his leg was still unhealed and infected, and he had a high fever. Several doctors decided that amputation was inevitable. Dr. Walsh took over and treated him with "Biodyne" ointment. In four months, the charred leg was good...