Word: shod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges' decisions-tabulated, computed and checked by specially hired mathematicians-were announced, top score (521.6 points) went to long-legged, 16-year-old Joan Tozzer, last year's junior champion, daughter of Harvard's famed Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer. But close on her white-shod heels (517.5 points) was vivacious, Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy) of Manhattan. So eager is Miss Peppe to follow the figure-eights of her aunt, Beatrix Loughran, who held the title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor. Behind Miss...
...British Boot & Shoe Trade Association, deciding that the only way to fit a shoe properly is to study the shod foot in action, exhibited a rubber overshoe carrying six electrical contacts at key pressure points. When the wearer walks over a metal surface, electrical instruments record the pressure changes...
...Fritz Crisler's eleven thus far this confidence hardly seems justified. But a team which includes veterans Captain Montgomery, Charley Toil, Fred Ritter, George Stoess, and Steve Cullinan in the line and Ken Sandbach, Jack White, and Chick Kaufman in the backfield boasts enough potential power to run rough-shod over most of the stronger grid teams in the east...
...newly elected captain, Austie Harding of Noble and Greenough fame, the Harvard Freshman hockey team ran rough shod over the Newton High School sextet 10-2 at the Garden yesterday afternoon. Five goals, three of them in the last minute, were rung up by the Yardlings during the second frame...
...Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular heed to motor car horns, radios and cutouts, to motor truck clattering, to workmen, revelers and electioneers making loud talk after 11 p.m. Milkwagon horses, police horses were shod with rubber shoes. Apparently the rest of the vast community gave some heed. After a night of muffling had passed, sound engineers reported that the din of Times Square dropped from 72 decibels to 68 decibels, or 35% in volume of sound...