Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devotees of the present Sardinia wished, last week, that Signor Mussolini would not slate it for tidying up until he has dealt with a far more criminal region. Calabria, the province which forms the toe of boot-shaped Italy...
...Clifton Copley, Representative from Illinois (1911-23), bestrides the country editorially with one foot planted firmly on newspapers of Joliet, Aurora, Elgin and Springfield, Ill., and the toe of the other on three papers in San Diego, Calif, (see p. 34). Last week he set his California heel down on 16 more papers of communities around Los Angeles, where his wife was born. The seller of the 16 papers was Frederick William Kellogg...
...Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform of a rope whereby sunken innocents were sometimes dragged out before they drowned...
Eighty men on the University track squad will be present tonight at the Knights of Columbus track meet to open the longest winter season that has ever been scheduled for the University. The runners will toe the line at 7.15 o'clock tonight in Mechanics Hall A check-up of the number of men entered in the event shows that at least 379 have filed banks to compete. J. L. Reid '29 will run in the feature mile race for the Curley Trophy against Lloyd Hahn of the Boston Athletic Association who is the leading middle distance runner in America...
Freshmen in Berkeley Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...