Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Party, at whose instigation Jew-baiting and terrorization of non-Nazi Germans attained national proportions and Argentina's 203 German schools were made to toe the ideological mark. Sample of in struction in the Goethe School: Teacher...
...Philadelphia last fortnight a 13-year-old Finn, looking too tall for his bare knees and short pants, listened to Eugene Ormandy rehearsing the Philadelphia Orchestra in Jean Sibelius' surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy...
...mummy's head was sheathed in a mask of pure gold. In the case were gold chest ornaments, necklaces, 21 bracelets inscribed with family records, six beautifully carved scarabs strung on a gold wire, gold finger and toe cases, like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut's tomb...
...Heel-&-Toe-Stepping A. J. Stubbs: the mile walking championship of New South Wales; in 6 min., 15⅓ sec.; setting a new world's walking record for a mile; at Sydney. Previous record...
...Sarawak, a rich tropical land of rubber, oil, antimony, edible birds' nests and rhinoceroses, it has long been recognized that a two-fisted male ruler was needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles's brother, Bertram. But Bertram is now 63, too old to assume new burdens. So Anthony Brooke, Bertram's 27-year-old son, was named Raja Muda (Crown Prince...