Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Over in the Department of Psychology there is a little machine which, by a curve on a soot-covered surface, indicates the fatigue undergone when a subject tries rhythmically to lift a weight by flexing a finger. The subject bends his finger and pulls, till his finger will bend and pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section...
...approve his admonitory finger...
...river was used daily after this until the Cornell race. In the meantime, however, Cabot and Talcott had once more swapped, the former going to three while the latter took the vacancy at five. Moseley Taylor had also been forced to retire on account of a bad finger which had become infected. H. S. Middendorf '16 took his place. The crew order which faced Cornell was as follows: Stroke, C. C. Lund '16; 7, H. A. Quimby '18; 6, H. S. Middendorf '16; 5, J. Talcott '16; 4, Captain D. P. Morgan, Jr., '16; 3, H. B. Cabot...
...clock on Soldiers Field. Garritt will probably be Coach Mitchell's choice to do the slab work, as he has not twirled a game since the one with Williams last Thursday. Whitney is still unable to take his regular turn in the box because of an injury to his finger which has caused him considerable trouble. Either Gill or Halloran, the two premier tossers of the Boston aggregation, will pitch for the opposing team. These two twirlers have borne the brunt of the box-work for their team this season and have come out fairly well considering the strength...
...four games and lost four this season. Captain Casey and Bond in the outfield are both playing good ball and are hitting extremely well. Kerr at shortstop, who has also been putting up a heady game, may not be able to play because of an injury to his finger. In this case, McLeod will probably take short and Hubbard second...