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Word: footedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Oil & Salt | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Iowa's Henry Wallace stopped his presidential campaign motorcade in Pittsburgh, hopped out and footed it for 20 minutes up & down a hillside.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Family Circle | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

HANOVER, October 24--The Daily Dartmouth hotshots hare-footed it back to the New Hampshire woods today with only their join cloths and wampum belts left from Saturday's crushing defeat to the CRIMSON, 23 to 2.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Triumphs, 23-2 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

In his first set against Adrian Quist, Ted Schroeder found a cannonball service ("I don't know where it came from, but I'm glad it came") and the violently accurate volley that had deserted him all season, and won 6-3. In the second set, he lapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cruel, Isn't It? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Foot Race in the Dark. Like someone heaving, lead-footed, through a nightmare, Mathias rounded the dark track. Somehow on the homestretch he managed a little spring, and finished in 5:11. It was pitifully slow time, but enough to clinch his victory.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Boy | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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