Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Righthander Ed Ingalls will toe the slab at the start today, with lefty Dick Walsh in reserve. Only change in the regular lineup will find Dave Shean replacing Dick Grondahl in left field...
...Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march...
Walsh, the Senior southpaw, did not show up too well in his two vacation games, but Coach Fred Mitchell figures that he is about ready to turn in a really good performance and so will have him toe the slab...
...York World-Telegram, was able to make it known, in a fitting cinematic denouement to Heloise's adventures, that "it is only by chance that today the management of the Hollywood Restaurant . . . announced that Heloise Martin is coming back. There, as before, Miss Martin will toe-tap, perform in the chorus line and dance a number with a jumping rope. . . . Honest, we didn't think it would turn out this...
...figure skating championship, the hardest figuring is done by the judges. For contestants, the event falls into two divisions, school and free figures. School figures are six standard maneuvers selected by lot from the 42 that all able figure skaters have at their toe-tips. They count two-thirds of a contestant's total score. Free figures, improvisations selected by the contestants, count one-third. Contestants are judged partly on how closely the patterns made by their skates on the ice match the classic figures they attempt to execute, partly on the patterns made by their bodies moving through...