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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound crew suffered one shift in the substitution at 3.3. Ganz '28 toe Maurice Hecksher '29 at the bow position. Coach C.S. Heard '25 made the replacement to lessen the poundage of the lightweight shell which had been, until yesterday, above the average allowed for 150 pound oarsmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIFTS IN CREW SEATING MADE BEFORE M.I.T. RACE | 5/1/1928 | See Source »

Robert Tyre Jones Jr., in business in Atlanta with his father, entered suit on behalf of his client, Grover Hartley, onetime catcher of the Giants, against the Georgia Railroad for $25,000, saying that a flagman lurching through the aisle of the car stepped on Hartley's big toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas to bolster their oil derricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Long, Long Trial | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...ribbon round toe of his shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

operetta.*The Three Musketeers, a Florenz Ziegfeld operetta, has all the impedimenta of its kind; there are frequent pretty songs, enormous numbers of beautiful girls with too many clothes on, flocks of toe dancers who caper around the stage in wide skirts and bonnets. Equipped with dusters, they would look as if they had just jumped out of a can of glorified Dutch Cleanser. There is also a plot about Messrs. D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos; they are serving the King of France to the best of their ability and making love to ladies. D'Artagnan himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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