Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other public or private owners of property." Politics? Last week the Press commented widely on the fact that, though the TVA decision represented the unanimous opinion of one Republican and two Democratic judges, in both the AAA and PWA decisions a lone Democrat dissented from two Republican colleagues. Such finger-pointing caused the judicial New York Times to observe: "It would be foolish to contend that no judge is ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe to say that very few judges would permit themselves to be moved from what they really believe...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
Pointing a reproving finger at adhesive tape manufacturers, the Schwartz-Peck report to Surgeon General Gumming concludes: "Research in adhesive manufacture should make it possible to substitute non-irritating types of rosins and rubber for the present types...
Paring Knife Finger Tip Knife
...were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood. Last week Author Isherwood appeared for the first time on the U. S. scene, partly returned his compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...