Word: footgear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's the word from local ski shops, which report that about the only real changes in equipment this year are in footgear...
That's the word from local ski shops, which report that about the only real changes in equipment this year are in footgear...
Next to good grades, the factories list "energy" and "personality" as the main criteria for judging prospects. Some "white-shoe outfits" (so called because white bucks were once standard footgear on Ivy League campuses) still cherish a preference for an upper-class family background. It also helps to be free of conspicuous eccentricities: a facial tic, a squeaky voice or a gaudy necktie can bar a bright applicant, and even too much library pallor may arouse suspicion. In response to a Harvard Law School questionnaire on what it was looking for in graduates, a New York firm curtly replied, "Byron...