Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Robert Zuppke's finger-on which he superstitiously changes rings if his team loses-twitched. A highly touted Notre Dame team which Coach Elmer Layden thought was the best he had yet assembled, scored twice as many first downs as Illinois, and twice as many yards from scrimmage. But at the end of the game Zuppke's rings were still in order. Zuppke's 25th anniversary year had begun with a small triumph. Score...
...There by the wall a maiden poet stands, Her gestures undulant on languid hands; Each finger nail a crimson petal, seen Through a pale garnishing of nicotine. Her draperies, like downward vapor, tremble, As one by one her courtiers assemble...
Round and round goes the propellor. When a finger of the rubbing hand is in one position, the propellor goes one way, when in another, the other...
...Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first day's luncheon session, Director Bloomfield had little difficulty in getting the services of James Roosevelt, who for his own reasons always likes to have a finger in Boston goings...
...form associations between events; 3) accomplish difficult migrations apparently involving memory; 4) display emotion. "As far as I can form a judgment," said he, "these four types of behavior include most, if not all, of the activities of the human race. ... I do not believe we can put our finger on any one of our mental powers and say, 'Herein are we a race apart, elevated above the rest of the animal world...