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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Williams. It has been remarked that Harrison Williams has more utility knowledge in his little finger than any other utility man has in his entire anatomy. Exaggerated is this statement, yet not unfounded. Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp. is a holding company which owns more than 810,000 shares of North American Co., which, through subsidiaries, furnishes light and power in Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Washington, and more than 900 other U. S. communities. Central States was prominent in the formation of American Cities Power and Light and of Electric Shareholdings Corp. It has large holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Council of Copenhagen | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

During the June week when the U. S. public is most college-conscious, Cornell stands unique in other respects besides kudos. On its hill at the tip of the biggest of western New York's Finger Lakes, it stands midway geographically, culturally, financially, between the allegedly "effete" private institutions of the East and the allegedly "crude"' State-supported institutions of the Midwest and West. Its students come from both sides of the Alleghenies. It is composed of colleges supported privately and by the State. It is a co-educational "man's college." It began with the soil and evolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kudos: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reparation | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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