Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the investigation of the War Department by the Senate Military Affairs Committee does not, seek to embarrass particular people or the take political revenge on anyone. Consequently we are surprised that so much flippant hinting and so many sly finger-pointings should have appeared in the American press. We are glad that the investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes...
...world, but a century will see the death of the oldest man who fought the wars. This year, and the strife which to us swallows up the year, will be but, a page of history, for the statistician and the biographer to prod into with an exact and impersonal finger...
There are your books for you. They tell you what men have been. We are a character upon the written page which the moving finger writes. And when the living year has gone its way, not much will be left of all those who acted their brave part so well, save a short memory and a thought...
...investigation of the condition of track in the University, and will present its report to C. C. Little '10, chairman of the Graduate Committee at a meeting tonight. The former committee has not been merely an agency to help bring men out for track, but it has laid a finger upon many of the causes of the criticisms which have been made, and, in its report, has recommended definite measures to eradicate these faults. With the approval of the Graduate Committee much will be done to organize track on a more favorable basis, and to increase the chances of developing...
...same time combined a certain finesse of gesture with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with...