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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither team "A" or team "B" scrimmaged yesterday afternoon, but at a scrimmage between the "C" and "D" squads it was revealed that three men were on the injured list. Robert S. Hurlbut '34 is out with a broken finger, Nathaniel H. Blatchford III '36 has a sore foot, and Nathaniel L. Tenney, Jr. '35, has pulled a muscle. On Wednesday Nevin was reported to be suffering from a cold in his back, but he was back in the lineup yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY'S FOOTBALL TEAM IN HARD DAILY DRILLS | 9/22/1933 | See Source »

...last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally discredited. Though he lived to within a few months of the end of the ensuing Boer War, Authoress Millin says Rhodes had no finger in its bringing about, never believed it could actually happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhodes to Glory | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Vatican upon his election in 1922. In later shots he seems more mellow, friendly, self-assured. He receives Boy Scouts in his favorite spot in the Vatican Gardens, the garish reproduction of the Grotto of Lourdes. The King & Queen of Italy visit him; black missionaries kiss his finger. The Pope speaks once, in his soft, old-man's voice, at the opening of his radio station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pious Film | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd of the Seven Hills is accompanied throughout with choir-singing and the unctuous voice of Radio Narrator Basil Ruysdael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pious Film | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...lift the bonds from behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most hot bonds do, through the hands of a "front man" (intermediary) to a fence and then to San Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hot Bonds | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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