Word: footholds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because anthracite miners and operators would be endangering their industry by a strike. Soft coal and other substitutes would gain a greater foothold on the market...
...seeking eagles' eggs will pause to secure his foothold in the last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...
...That the virus alone cannot get a foothold in a living organism and cause cancer...
...Clayton will speak on the "Toc H" movement which he has been so instrumental in developing. His talk will be illustrated with slides of pictures of the various places where the "Toc H" movement has taken a foothold, from the battlefields of France to the slums of London. Both supper and lecture are open to all members of the University. Applications for the supper, which may be made at the Phillips Brooks House, will close at 12 o'clock today...
Thus Japan, denied a foothold in the north and centre of the North American continent, is compensated in the south...