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Word: footedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back of the passer. If there is no one available the man may drop the ball and dribble it with his feet, as in soccer. Here again he may pass it to another player, but always to one who is behind him. The foot dribble and pass is also the type of play which usually follows a ball going out of bounds. The two teams form long lines at right angles to the side of the field, but jostling each other, and the ball is thrown...

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

...occasion for this declaration of policy was the completion of the canalization of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Cairo, Ill. (967 mi.). Fifty wicket locks now maintain a nine-foot all-year channel down this historic stream, first traversed (1669) by Explorer La Salle, admired by Surveyor George Washington, developed by President James Monroe. Into its brown waters have been poured $150,000,000 to permit stumpy little tugs to haul 50 million tons of coal, iron, gravel and sand on steel barges back and forth each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...broad shallow horseshoe of boxes to see how many and which Insulls, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fairbankses, Fieldses, Cranes. Swifts, Thornes and family jewels are present, Chicago first-nighters will see the black-haired girl and her white camels vanish upward (the stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with golden light from the page in front of him, the familiar strains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Murray, flutter-footed cinemactress, sued Fox Theatres Corp., Peter Clark, Inc., Flatbush Ave. & Nevins St. Co. and William Fox Circuit of Theatres for $250,000, claiming that while dancing at the Fox Theatres (Brooklyn) last December her heel caught in a crack on the stage causing her to trip, fall, break a bone in the invaluable left foot of Mae Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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