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Word: toes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern Intercollegiate tournament at Penn State last weekend, Lee lost in the semi-finals to the 1949 winner. He finished the tourney as third-ranking 123-pounder in the East, however, since the defending champion, Bob Gerebino of Syracuse, was forced to default because of a torn toe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Elects Burke Captain; Swimmers Name Stroud | 3/14/1951 | See Source »

...Lost Horizon. It is the story of a stage-struck Irish colleen named Carey, who pines for stardom and is raised to it by a producer who is a theatrical genius. He also marries Carey, but, like all geniuses in fiction, is too much of a heel to toe the married line. So Carey swaps him for a likable millionaire-only to conclude, after a couple of hundred pages of tightly packed pondering, that the path of genius, however rough, is preferable to Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ham to Spam | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Temple, but tap-dancing never interested Maria. At six, she was up on her toes, dancing to The Stars & Stripes Forever. Soon after, swathed in her mother's remodeled peach satin and ostrich feather negligée, she made a solo debut as the Glow Worm. Unlike a lot of other dancing moppets who never get beyond the Glow Worm stage, Maria and her younger sister Marjorie (now a principal dancer in the Marques de Cuevas Grand Ballet) stuck to their toe shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American as Wampum | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...training piece to those who are in a great hurry to reach the neighboring men's room. But when we consider that any potential attack on Cambridge will probably be from the East--down Mass. Avenue, and that the present Varsity Club would thereby make a capital toe-hold command headquarters for such an Attacking Force, the placement of the old cannon takes on significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If War Comes | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

...tremendous aid we could secure by backing Chiang to the limit and backing him now. Chiang may not be a lily of the valley, and neither is Tito. But what is Chiang's record with Communism as compared to Acheson's? Chiang was fighting Communism tooth and toe while we stabbed him in the back . . . BURTON K. DAVIDSON Brookhaven, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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