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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's!" Not new, M. Tardieu merely gave a semblance of creation to the old, calm, logical French argument that only a real International Law, only a real League of Nations and only a real World Court can make sovereign states toe the line of International Decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Arms for Disarmament | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Last week to a group of Chicago zoologists Professor Wright urged that his hypothesis was correct. He had nursed a thread-like toe on a freak guinea pig into regular, tweakable toes on its descendants. Members of that race now regularly have 19 toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Guinea Pig Toes | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Calif., had called together her teachers and posed the question: How can a teacher improve her personal appearance? Upon their replies she based an outline for the Journal. null to demonstrate what a chic abecedarian looks like, Mrs. Gray donned a smart brown ensemble, smiled gaily, pointed a trim toe and posed for a picture looking much like bridge-playing Mrs. Ely Culbertson (see cut). Mrs. Gray's pointers for well-dressed teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outfit | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little girls stand on tip toe and squirm while a doll says "mamma" and closes her eyes. On Tremont Street gamins paste their noses against the plate glass and whistle. Choirs seek a new Bass for the Halleujiah Chorus and the Junior League trills "Stille Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably spectacular runs. Dartmouth's other great threat, Bill Morton, put on last year one of the most beautiful exhibitions of kicking seen in the Stadium for a long time, and his accurate toe was the chief factor in his team's 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson. But good as these two backs may have been this season and last, the rest of their team has been pretty well shot to pieces and they themselves received a bad mauling from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

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