Word: toe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week when Leon Henderson officially stepped down from head of the Office of Price Administration, U.S. business saw not just the departure of an able public servant but another blow at an economic philosophy which has already stubbed its toe on hard economic fact and hard, economic...
Jimmy Thompson is a ruddy, polite little man of 47, whose body is tattooed from clavicle to toe with black cats, snakes and strawberries. He is official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply...
Mister Five By Five, He's five feet tall and he's five feet wide. He don't measure no mo' from head to toe, Than he do from side to side...
Purpose, said President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell, is to "give young men a 'toe hold.' in college before they enter military service. ... If we don't do this, college education for the duration is the privilege of the women...
...From tail coats, surgeons progressed to shirt sleeves and rubber aprons, not to protect the patient but to protect the surgeon's clothes. One man wore longshoreman's boots, another "butcher's boots which he never cleaned." Only by gradual stages was the present top-to-toe sterile white achieved...