Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down the Tigris in ancient Babylonia, the neighboring expeditions at Tell Asmar and Khafaji. From these strategic points the Oriental Institute can send out small parties to other sites. Thus it has at its finger tips the whole of Asia Minor, the entire Valley of the Nile. From them it has drawn a rich store of knowledge of the civilizations of Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and of prehistoric man back to the Stone...
...Depression as an excuse for getting rid of professors who were politically or personally distasteful. Professor Mitchell said he had been "deluged" with requests for investigation of this & that dismissal. This he deplored, as did all present. But Committee A has not been able to put its finger on any specific case of abuse. Most publicized case of the year was that of Professor Herbert Adolphus Miller, who was dismissed from Ohio State University supposedly because he made an "inflammatory'' speech to disciples of St. Gandhi in Bombay (TIME. June 8). Committee A investigated, found his dismissal unwarranted...
...shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed low over polished finger nails. Workmen would look up through dirty shop windows and salute to a high wheeled gilt carriage with a muttered "Vive l'Imperatrice." It was all very much like a play...
...whole film revolves around this man Robinson, and he revels in the limelight. He tosses off whiskey in little paper cups, says "I'll tell you why we killed your mother. We did it for circulation", shakes a pudgy, accusing finger at his boss, throws the telephone through the glass window of the door with equal enthusiasm. Even if you have already seen one of these movies with newspaper settings, you will enjoy "Five Star Final...
...good morning to you!" said the Minister of Public Instruction and Art. With his finger and thumb he plucked an immensely valuable statuet from his pocket and waggled it under the curator's nose. "To teach you a lesson I run the risk of arrest as a thief. It is possible to walk into this museum as easily as into a mill. I was stopped by no one. I paid no admission. I could have filled my pockets with loot...