Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jumbos never had a chance. For three periods at the Arena last night, the varsity hockey team hardly extended itself, yet it outclassed Tufts every foot of the way. In the end Harvard skated off with a 9 to 12 triumph its third win in three starts...
Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city council tried again. Angry over the way the Government was issuing rules about how householders should leave their garbage, the council decided to draft its ordinance No. 2, expressing its own ideas for garbage disposal in the model city. This time it was mad, and so were the townspeople...
Finally, the American National Insurance Co. of Galveston, Hilton's biggest creditor, took over his hotels. But Hilton still kept a foot in the door; American National gave him an $18,000-a-year job running their hotels. Gradually he raised enough cash to get back five of his nine hotels. By 1939 things were going so well that he built the Albuquerque Hilton and was on the move again...
...Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year...
Even when he was riding an alligator in the forests of British Guiana (see cut) or indulging his habit of "scratching the back of his head with the big toe of his right foot," Naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons...