Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dollars a week looks large in the absolute, but it breaks down to only a quarter per man. From one point of view, the Harvard contribution may be only a drop in the bucket; from another, it is the finger in the dike...
Tennessee. Aging, dapper Boss Ed Crump, who can swing 57,000 Memphis votes with his little finger, proved that his grip on Tennessee is as tight as ever. Over formidable opposition-supported mightily by New Deal Publisher Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean-Crump's men swept the Democratic primary...
...marble fireplace, surrounded by the little semicircle of 44 guests. Close by stood Hopkins' ten-year-old daughter, Diana, wistful and pretty in a cocoa-colored crepe dress and a brown straw hat. While Harry Hopkins put a gold-rope wedding ring on his bride's finger, little Diana held her new stepmother's bouquet...
...findings to the Harvard Observatory. Variable stars are distant suns which flare up, wane, flare up again with a mysteriously pulsating energy. Says one amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...
...braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...