Word: fingertip
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...hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
...mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth statue represents ten years of planning and construction at a cost of $250,000 donated in small amounts by the Brazilian faithful. His Holiness the Pope sent blessings, appointed Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra...
Suits. Much in evidence, mannish, some times sleekly furred. Their jackets favor fingertip lengths, have revers and collars. Many have no buttons. The blouses carry over from the summer, have no sleeves...
Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
...Divisionals is as hopelessly futile for the average Senior as attempts to get away from the engine in the nightmare. For all that can be said against cramming in the last few weeks, it is impossible to spread over a long time the final review necessary for the fingertip knowledge required in the Divisional Examinations. In the meantime, all other work, tests, reports, weekly quizzes, naturally suffers. The additional burden of daily work under such circumstances tends to spill the whole load...