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This was a true heartbreaker. Fayer swam the fastest qualifying time, and indeed the fastest time of the day (0:25.79), but in the final, Dartmouth's Nancy Gildan came up with an excellent turn and won it by, well, a fingernail...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Yale Wins Women's Ivy Swim; Crimson Fades to Fourth Place | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...junior high school teacher in the Philadelphia school system for the past three years, I have been assaulted four times-three times by parents or older siblings. I have suffered bruised ribs, fingernail lacerations and a mild concussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

With the pain of a fingernail being pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poems of Kim Chi Ha | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...limitations." His job, he observed on another occasion, was "to walk down the middle of the street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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