Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas last week pointed a monitory finger at the forthcoming national conventions. Said Democrat Douglas: "The delegates to these conventions will not really represent the people. They will have been chosen by the party bosses and the professional political leaders in most of the states...
...Finger Writer. A ballpoint pen that fits over the index finger has been invented by R. L. Fuerst, a German refugee who fled from Hitler to Spain, then to China, then to the U.S. when the Communists started moving in. He will put it on sale in the spring, has already lined up orders for nearly 90,000. Price...
...beautiful dress in houses at the time of marriage etc. Exchange to American goods like Pilgrim secret wallets, billfolds, belts, hand-paint Original ties, jackets, candys and gums, cameras, trousers, T shirts, sports shirts, coats, pearls, earrings, powders, soaps, canvas, cosmetic, towel, cigarette cases, colourful ankle socks, shoes, finger nail clippers...
Since his father's death in 1946, the boss of the Spokane papers has been W. H. Cowles Jr., now 49. Unlike his father, who held a firm finger on the whole operation, diffident "Billy" Cowles leaves the Review news department to 38-year-old Managing Editor James Bracken. Though the paper still covers its region like a tent, it no longer has its former editorial prowess. Bracken has been trying to restore it by scraping some of the moss off the Review's Republicanism to bring it more in line with the increasing industrialization of the area...
...Three Philadelphia researchers report that wounds treated with chlorophyll mend faster than those treated with penicillin or sulfa drugs. Further finding: a cut on the index finger heals faster than one on the pinky...