Word: fingertip
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...wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
...kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into the past, and has introduced a strict, well-disciplined machinery to replace the former hit-or-run system of fire-fighting. The modern chief has a fingertip knowledge of the latest fire prevention methods, is a combination of business man, doctor, psychologist, race-track driver, and engineer. Every one of his men looks forward to officers stripes some day, and knows he has to work to get them. The old time courage is still there, plus...
...authoritative Army and Navy Register reported that in port at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, after Caribbean maneuvers, sailors of the U. S. fleet bought $3,472.26 worth of native baskets, cocktail napkins, fingertip towels, baby bibs...
After three weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...
Reporters who waxed skeptical while trying to write with a Fingertip pencil were quietly shushed. Some practice was needed, it appeared, for proper handling...