Word: toed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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19th century Turkey Altitude to keep feet from street dust.
c. 960 to 1900s China 1936 coverlet for bound foot; some were 3 in. long.
1591 Those rotten journalists A Chinese border official complained of irresponsible "news-bureau entrepreneurs" who give no consideration to "matters of [national] emergency."
1811 Industrial Revolution The steam engine began to power the press; the rotary press (invented in 1846) allowed runs of 20,000 sheets an hour.
1931 Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia. Beginning in the late 1960s, he became the founder of the first truly global media empire, with properties ranging from newspapers to a movie studio to cable and broadcast television networks.