Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adenoids are an overgrowth of the glandular tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages. They can be felt by sticking the forefinger into the adenoidal individual's mouth and hooking the first phalanx of the finger over his soft palate. The finger will come out covered with blood, for the adenoids bleed very easily...
Thereafter, last week the correspondents hounded both admirals with questions about ships and eggshells, and drew from them practically infinite variations on this safe, discussible, amusing topic. Admiral Jones outdid his rival by declaring explosively, "Why the plates on some destroyers are so thin you could almost poke a finger through...
...rays. Metals prevent passage of x-rays ordinarily used. A ring, on an x-ray photograph, is opaque, although the flesh of the finger is transparent. However, Professor George L. Clark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who established the first laboratory for applying x-rays to industry, showed the testers how he detected flaws in steel four-inches thick...
...Joseph Kennedy who is to the New York Central what the commanders of flagships are to steamer lines. Of his apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...
Last week's flood defense centred in the point of this finger. The levee at McCrea, on the east bank of the Atchafalaya in the parish of Pointe Coupee, was weakening. At last reports it appeared likely that the east-Atchafalaya system would give way, permitting waters from the Atchafalaya to join the main Mississippi stream after flooding the dry strip between the rivers. In this strip, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, are the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Iberville and Assumption with a population of about 80,000. Five other parishes to the south and west would...