Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed amazing, as one peruses the Harvard catalogue, to discover that the University still offers no courses in the interesting and important field of phrenology. Phrenology is, in the words of the Fowler brothers, "a noble discipline, practical and spiritual, useful for head and hand, foot and mouth, hide and hair...
Mikoyan's road-show sell got a good house in Cleveland. There, he presented a gift of a Russian troika (three splendid, high-stepping white horses and carriage) to his host, aging (75) Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, was invited for a ride, no sooner got one foot on the little carriage step than the whole shebang lit off around a snowy track at full speed. Jaunty and chipper, he hung on, alighted at last with a gallant swoop of his hat, as Mrs. Eaton cooed: "You're the bravest man I've ever heard of." Eaton, who regards...
...large measure, Baylor's tremendous skill stems from his tremendous physique. He is 6 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 230 lbs. He is strong enough to win the hip-cracking duels under the basket, yet nimble enough to outjump men half a foot taller, dodge around men half a foot shorter...
Yovicsin felt that the next most influential change would be "to put the foot back in football" by widening the goal posts. Next year the posts will be 23 ft., 4 in. apart instead of the 18 ft., 6 in. span in force this year...
...first goal, coming at 2:09 of the second period, was a beauty. Buddy Higginbottom passed out from the corner to Fischer, standing ten feet outside the crease. His on-the-ice backhander hit the near post and skittered past Girard. Fischer's second goal came on a 20-foot backhander which broke off the goalie's glove...