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Word: footed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preacher Militiaman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Unfortunate were two Socialist Deputies who attended an anti-Pilsudski meeting the following morning at the foot of Warsaw's monument to Romulad Traugut. Police, charging the meeting with drawn sabres, slashed these Deputies painfully. Together they addressed a formal letter to Civil Marshal Daszynski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski v. Daszynski | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Boos for Boess | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...George MacDonald, noted Catholic charitarian. Manhattan financier. While Cardinal Hayes was in Rome, Sir George served as Papal Chamberlain at the Vatican. Then the party went to Naples to embark on the yacht lamara, chartered for a lengthy cruise by Papal Knight MacDonald. Manned by 50 sailors, 300-foot, 14-cabined, the lamara is the largest yacht in European waters. Once before, in 1927, had Sir George taken the Cardinal cruising, but that had been in the Caribbean. This time his yacht will skim the storied waters of the Mediterranean, carry them to Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, return the Cardinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Business, Pleasure | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...player is able, he reaches in the air and bats it to one of his backs, but usually he must be content with getting it down at his feet and commencing a dribble. The defense against an opposing team rushing down the field with a foot dribble is usually to dive for and fall on the ball, and take the kicks intended for it. Touchdowns and goals are scored substantially as in the American game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Rhodes Scholar Compares Rugby Football With American Game--Declares English Sport Equally Exciting | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

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