Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mordecal Peter (Three Finger) Brown and Charles A. (Kid) Nichels, two great Pitchers of the past, today joined 56 other baseball immortals in the game's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 10 (Johnson), St. Louis 6 Pittsburgh 3 (Chambers), Boston 3 Boston 4(Hughson), St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 11 (Carey), Boston 3 New York 12 (Byrne), Detroit 0 New York 10 (Jansen), Chicago 1 Washington 7 (Searb'r'ugh), Cleveland 3 Brooklyn 3 (Minner), St. Louis 7 Washington 2 (Hudson), Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 14 (Ruffensberger), Philadelphia 3 (McCahan), Chicago 2 Philadelphia 7 Chicago...
...room. After the first expulsion, he reports solemnly, she sulked at him for a week. After the second, she would have nothing to do with him-until three weeks later she recognized him in the yard, 50 feet away from the beehouse, and lit on the finger which had fed her. Says Dr. Shafer: "I felt as if I had been forgiven...
...chances. Things not to do during an interview: "Don't interrupt, don't beg, don't be breezy, don't talk too much, don't mumble, don't giggle, don't argue." Furthermore, warned the booklet, "don't be a finger fidgeter, a hand washer, a clothing adjuster, a tapper, twister, nose puller, whisker feeler, or an Adam's apple adjuster...
...floor. A smart, longtime supporter of a big Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson's quarrel was not with...
...modern key still has the finger pointing at the stars but the hand shows from a twentieth century sleeve, the key itself is gold, and it has grown a tail on the bottom...