Word: heeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will be designed which will have regard for the quality of mercy, and will leave the pound of flesh uncut. Some new kind of heel will be developed that will make walking a real pleasure...
Toboga Island-the Achilles' heel of Panama Canal. (P. 5.) Minds that list Maraschino, well-known cherry, as a Premier of Russia...
...rare protests against the brutal carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system today. What sort of a man is it who stuffs himself with useless information? Mr. Gay gives a list of men equipped with "out-at-the-elbow, down-at-the-heel sort of minds" including Herodotus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Anatole France and others...
...half-mile excluding Burke, through a 660-yard race, Newhall led until the final straightaway when McCarthy started sprinting and finally finished three yards ahead. In the mile trials Lamont overtook Coolidge on the last corner, the latter finishing second with Sherburne coming in close on his heel for third place...
...there is very little real understanding in this country of conditions of Philippine administration, and until there is it is hard to see how the question of independence can be fairly discussed. The idea that the Philippines are "groaning under the heel of American exploitation" as was stated recently in the Senate, is a great exaggeration. Very few Americans have any real power now in the islands. Filipinos have been in actual as well as nominal control of the government departments,--executive, legislative, judicial, and educational,--since 1917. There are only 582 Americans on the government staff today...