Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopeful war against Turkey proved disastrous to Greek arms and in the ignominy of defeat, Constantine was for the second time chased from the country. He was succeeded by another son, Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles...
...hosts interrupted the academic calm as best they could. They took the delegates-including Shu Tze of China-to examine a complete museum of bandit instruments. They called upon Shinzo Uno of Japan to show cinemas of police work during the Tokyo earthquake. They passed resolutions on coordination of finger prints and demonstrated the telephotograph. By this means, three finger prints were flashed to Chicago and in five minutes two criminals' names were telephoned back. (The third was not in the Chicago files...
...Formation of a committee to study the codification of recorded finger prints, of which there are about 5,000,000 in the U.S. alone...
...chorus. A tower of Babel type was quickly erected on the editorial pages of the Nation's newspapers. Editoriailzers who had learned to say "Yes," said "Yes" again, flew the eagle proudly over the waters of the earth, pointed the finger of scorn at all who opposed the aggrandizement of U. S. shipping, dubbed them "Little Americans...