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Word: toe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening began slowly. A few in the audience made furtive toe-tappings through the opening medleys. They had learned in grammar school music appreciation classes that true music lovers don't keep time with their feet, but with their souls. By the time the band got to the Harvard medley, everyone was bound should and foot by the melodious blare, and was stomping away with joy and a new-found pride in an already favorite Harvard institution...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Dartmouth Concert | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: A Political Microcosm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Little Thunderer | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bull Session | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Tamplin, inventor of a 54-gallon, radio-controlled beer barrel (at the flick of a dial it rolls out of the house and across the lawn to where the operator is sitting, fills his glass, returns to the house), permitted a friend to operate the barrel, suffered a crushed toe when the barrel rolled out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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