Word: heels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Winks quibbles. Exact words of the Committee: ". . . The University needed educational leadership, such as under the circumstances could not have been expected from a man of Dr. Kerr's antecedents and former associations."-ED. Owens' Heel...
...close and intimate acquaintance of Jesse Owens as well as of many white athletes, I am positive no such differences prevail in heel bone sizes. Rather than quoting publicity-seeking nobodys, I suggest TIME be scientific for once...
...Brothers Warner but certainly Paramount Publix seemed a citadel of cinematic conservatism. Indeed, Paramount was the $300,000,000 medium through which the House of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had seen fit to lift the film industry to the financial equal of steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common stock instead of in cash from the proceeds of bond issues as did other film concerns in the wild scramble for their own screens. Unwisely, however, Paramount agreed...
...Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...
...Society events and the election campaigns, which he regards in somewhat the same light; but he thinks books are suitable only for invalids." With roundabout irony which sometimes straightens into indignation Author Cason casts his dissatisfied eye over the Southern scene, finds it on the whole down-at-heel, lazy, complacent, resigned, ignorant, cynical, exasperating. Southern sensitiveness to criticism he calls "dangerously suggestive of what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would...