Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence has learned not to trifle with the big magnet. Once a small metal part worked loose within its field, whizzed into the core, nipped off the end of Dr. Lawrence's finger on the way. He and his men carry little gadgets resembling fountain pens clipped to their pockets, electroscopes to warn them of baneful radiations of the sort that set up tissue necrosis in x-ray experimenters. But neutrons, electrically inert particles, do not affect electroscopes, and penetrate many times farther than x-rays. Dr. Lawrence found that rats placed a few inches from the neutron source...
...like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton Simon expounded in great detail a method of identification which no criminal could circumvent without blinding himself. Dr. Simon would use the pattern of blood vessels in the circular backdrop of the eye. Almost infinitely various is this network...
Admittedly, living in a philosophical Tower, an old hag to tend one--a dab of wood, gentle soul!--warm friends about, the treasures of the past at one's finger tips--and a sensitive mind to feel the world--'tis all so easy to warm one's toes and say: "The purpose of life is to live!" Live, mind you, as an artist paints a picture--not modernistic, if you please--harmoniously, a little color here and there, purposively, and as omits the fancy, in contemplation...
...Chicago, George Gaw, Chicago's onetime official greeter of celebrities, sued Lake Erie Chemical Co. in vain for $100,000 damages for the loss of the middle finger on his right, greeting hand, when one of the company's tear gas fountain pens exploded in his hand...
...there were no witnesses to the shooting but the evidence indicates that it must have happened in this way. Jeff Bowers went to the drawer where the gun was kept"-he made the gesture of opening an imaginary drawer-"took the automatic in his hand"-he pointed his manicured finger at himself-"and fired. The bullet went in here and came out here...