Word: toe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called in for consultation. They retreated back...
...University track team will be represented in two events at the Millrose A. A. indoor games in New York at the Madison Square Garden this evening when Miller and Burns toe the mark in the 40-yard dash, and Watters answers the gun in the Millrose 600-yard...
When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war-angle sounding the onset and hovering o'er the mingling fray, we little thought then, that today he would lie so low, surrounded by weep-ing "Sophs." Exult ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table, have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once at least, your eyes and noses are protected, you are shielded behind by the aegies of Minerva...
...digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They covered his waist with two girdles, from each of which hung a dagger, zestfully ornamented. They put the royal apron, inlaid with gold, around his pathetically bony legs. For his feet were golden sandals. A sheaf of gold tipped each toe and finger...
...before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They had seen what they came for. They had seen, also, Marek (Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line. Score: Illinois 14, Ohio State 9. All autumn the skilful toe of Benny Friedman and the oaken-bound bucket-ribs of "Bull" Molenda have kept Michigan high in the Conference League. On Saturday this pair, with, alternate punts and bucks, drop-kicks and hurtling off-tackle plays, performed against Minnesota. Score: Michigan 35, Minnesota 0. Northwestern was tied with Michigan...