Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Thursday Father Leonard Feeney, in one of his regular talks, said that "the worst impurity of the mind is skepticism." Feeney was wagging his finger at the religious heterodoxy of Harvard, but unknowingly, perhaps, he was pointing past that heterodoxy towards one of the roots of man's progress...
...Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life. In mongolism victims, the body structures formed earlier than that are usually normal, said Dr. Ingalls, and so are those formed later...
...American Research & Development Corp., which finances new companies, told the committee that E.P.T. favors big, entrenched companies, penalizes new and growing businesses. Under it, said Griswold, "many new industries that might otherwise be born will never see the light of day." But the New York Times laid its editorial finger on the most glaring inequity of E.P.T. President Truman had asked for the tax to "recapture excess profits made since the start" of the Korean war. But Snyder's proposal, the Times pointed out, regards one-fourth of pre-Korean profits as "excessive." Snapped the Times: "This should...
...businessman who wet a finger to the economic wind last week felt a good deal of hot air blowing from all directions...
About the only cheering items for the Yardlings were O'Donnell's hard running and the rushing of Captain Dick Clasby. But Clasby's passing was limited by his bad finger, so the Yardlings lost their best offensive weapon. He completed only two long passes all afternoon. On one, end Harvey Popell made a brilliant catch; the other was ruled complete because of interference...