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...relative positions ten yards back. This shift will prevent injury to players smashing into posts on touchdown plays and will eliminate confusion caused by the old position of posts, often in the way of goal line plays and punts from back of the line. Drop-kickers will have to boot ten yards harder to score three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Rules | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...find that this fellow had never been in one. It seems his mother was a beared lady. And she did whatever running there was to be done. Anyway he took a great fancy to my roommate and gave him a message to deliver to the American Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers at their next meeting...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...shape of Italy is a conqueror's boot, and, just across the Adriatic from the "heel" lies, appropriately that sharp spur-wheel, Albania, with which II Duce prods the Balkans (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Scared | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb, fat-jowled Senator Borah, curly-wolf Judge Landis, smartly tailored Speaker Nicholas Longworth, well-oiled little Roger Wolff Kahn (jazzy son of opera-patron Otto H. Kahn)-were only guests. The company itself was as anonymous as a banquet of the Boot and Shoe Retailers' Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Candid Prince | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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