Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service is found to have had a criminal record. New York City required fingerprints of its civil service employes when it was found...
During the seance the "teleplasmic" arm appeared, stretched forth a "cold, slimy finger which felt as though it had flexible bones in it," and engaged in a regular handshake with the professor...
That surplus, however, has been strangely volatile. Mr. Schwab himself cannot quite believe that it is gone. For a while the realization stripped him of his old arrogance, but instead of giving him a subdued wisdom, adversity merely tempted his friends to poke a curious finger through him, and his enemies to come gingerly within his range. But Bethlehem's late lawyer once remarked, when he was drawing up its famous percentage contract with the government, that "The higher optimism is to hope for a little pessimism in Charley Schwab." So Mr. Schwab is once more sanguine. Perhaps...
Whisking it open to p. 19 he poked his pudgy finger to a spot that reads: "In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reported tomb of the very founder of the Church." No writer of gospels himself, Peter thumbed his way to St. Matthew 16:18, where he read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against...
...every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China, all the male characters in this play meet violent deaths. If one were not cinematically informed as to Chinese proclivities, he would be sorely tempted to apply the word melodrama...