Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheels and most of the gadgets of a lathe for turning out baseball bats. It is used to pull eyelets out of tennis shoes, a dial registering the force needed. A machine with a rocking arrangement stretches sheets of shoe rubber until they tear. To test the safety-toe caps of miners' boots, a cake of paraffin is put in the toe and an iron weight dropped from a height of 4 ft. on the boot tip. If the cake shows any signs of flattening, the manufacturer makes the toe cap stronger...
Beatty's tortured concern over his symptoms, his delight when a doctor tries to cure him by tying his toe to his wife's ("modern medicine has made marvelous strides"), his involvement in a robbery and a murder, which he believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...
...occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being the most frequent sites." The dangerous years: 21 to 70. When a pigmented mole turns into malignant melanoma, the change may show in several ways...
...towering Queen-Empress did not appear. She was in bed with a broken toe from falling off a stepladder in her library while reaching for a book...
With Dick Walsh slated to toe the slab, the Crimson Varsity nine steps into its second home game this afternoon as a formidable menace to the Boston University invaders...