Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small Babe Mercer, 6 in. long, weighed 12 oz. at birth. Three weeks old and weighing 8 oz., she was thriving last week in Chadbourn, N. C. on two medicine droppers of milk every two hours. A finger ring would fit her wrist...
...been a cold, raw day in London, with slow rain and eddying winds. Towards nightfall the rain stopped and wisps of fog trailed up off the Thames to settle over the city. St. Paul's rolled up in the distance, the Bridge stood like ghostly battlements, and the finger of St. Martin's in the Fields was an old woman in an old torn veil. It was quiet end ancient and very...
...climbed on to the stage and was helped into the box the same way Booth had come down. Col. Oldroyd says, "Surgeon Taft stood at the head of the dying president all that dreadful night controlling the flow of the blood from the wound with his finger...
...commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more susceptible...
Disgruntled Russians complain to the Workers' & Peasants' Inspection, a nationwide organization through which Josef Stalin keeps his finger on Russia's 148,000,000 pulses. Last week the Complaint Bureau of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection announced that April 9-14 will be "Complaint Week," urged all citizens to complain, particularly of any negligence on the part of local officials of Workers' & Peasants' Inspection itself. During Complaint Week, declared the announcement, a "mass complaint meeting" will be held at every factory and on every collective farm in Russia...