Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...
With the right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...
...publicising its presentation this year, the Classical Club is serving a double purpose with particular fitness. It celebrates three hundred years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there...
...sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME, Nov. 18). Shortly thereafter the Art Institute, of which Mrs. Logan's husband is honorary president, acquired Thanksgiving for its permanent collection...
...carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta -hydroxybutyric acid. When this was added to their food, the young rats grew and thrived. Thus the Illinois biochemists put their finger on the final, elusive substance that must go into a good synthetic meal for rats, and presumably...