Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on the first level of objection, there is the question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with...
...actual process of making a pair of boots in a painstaking and tedious one. The pilgrim who travels to 135 Boylston St. gets his foot measured by Papa who insists that the lucky skier wear a properly ftting sock for the occasion. Having got a measurement of the customer's foot, Peter, or one of the boys, selects a "last" (the "last" looks like a solid wooden shoe tree with no hands) nearest the size of the measured foot. This "last" is carefully sanded down or built up with pieces of leather so that it emerges a working model...
...Bellboys finally assembled some blocking to go with their flashy T attack, and had little trouble baffling the Commuters with their pitchouts, faking, and passes. Lowell didn't score until the second period when Bob Woodruff ploughed across from the one foot line...
...time your arrival at the Exeter just right, you can avoid all of "Woman Hater," which manages to pack more cliches per foot of film that any recent production. How J. Arthur Rank allowed his name to be affixed to this one is a mystery...
Women got their foot in banking's door during World War I, when many bank officers were called to military services. They became firmly established during World War II. Today the Association of Bank Women has members in 43 states and the Territory of Hawaii...