Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons for each and every tooth brush in the United States. These statistics do not consider those very careful individuals who, according to the Brush King, use the same ivory polisher for fifteen years. But this conservation is more than balanced by the wide service of these tools as shoe blackeners, spark plug cleaners, and in the Fine Arts departments of various universities...
...judge-made law, to be used when there is clearly no redress through the normal process. In labor disputes, injunctions have become the best weapon of the employer, and their use has become more and more arbitrary. In the extension of the injunction to prohibition enforcement, however, the shoe is on the other foot, and the employer is hit hardest. Consequently, owners as well as workers may work together to overthrow the injunction, or at least to limit its use to equity and to prohibit it in cases which properly come under jury...
...University Instrumental Clubs will give a concert program of many specialties in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8.15 o'clock. G. B. Moynahan '26 will give an exhibition of soft-shoe clogging, a line in which he is a well known specialist. He is also leader of the Banjo Club, and plays in the Jazz Orchestra, which has a place on the program. During the intermission Phillip Walker '25 will give a specialty act in sleight of hand...
...raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they shot down a steep bank on skis and into the air from a great steel thank-you-ma'am. Other events were: fancy figure skating, 3-mile snow-shoe cross-country race...
...Millrose games (see above), another record was broken. It was done, many believed, by virtue of a dissolute, cast-off track-shoe. Harold M. Osborne, famed Illinois jumper and Olympic Champion, carefully placed that old shoe beside the special runway which had been marked out for him at one side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured...