Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensitive Friends. Dr. Shafer made friends with individual mud daubers. He became convinced that "adult females of this species possess a nervous system which, though tiny in size, enables them to remember, to learn, and to show individuality." Several were trained to eat a drop of honey from his hand. One let him stroke her while she ate. She became so fond of him that Dr. Shafer had difficulty keeping her away from an alcohol lamp with which he was working in the lab. Twice he had to put her out of the room. After the first expulsion, he reports...
...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...
...upstairs to become chairman of the executive committee. He turned over the presidency to his assistant, Clarence Belden Randall, 58. A Harvard-trained lawyer who this week also became head of the Harvard Alumni Association, Randall was named a vice president in 1930, had been Sykes's right-hand man since last October...
...that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
...them Northern. The best of the studies in this group is that of George H. Thomas, "the old gray mare of the Union," a Virginia-born artilleryman who commanded infantry and was certain that the chief role of the big guns was to give the footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming; all they had to do was keep down and shoot...