Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delayed when one of the Yale players who was hitch-hiking to Cambridge hurt his thumb on a telegraph pole, the annual Crimson-and-Blue tiddledy-winks contest got under way yesterday afternoon in the Tiddley-winks Room at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...practice Wednesday, right fielder Jim Sullivan chipped a bone in his thumb, catching a line drive, and it is doubtful if he will be ready for action today. Although a spike gash in his heel, incurred yesterday, required three stitches, Art Johns is expected to play this afternoon against the Ithacans...
...heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore...
...rule of the thumb of what the scholar has published may be an efficient standard for his progress in the sciences, ham said, but the situation is not the same in the humanities. "What we need is a different theory of administration between the two," he stated, "with more emphasis on the teaching of a subject as a whole as well as the existing stress on individual research...
...better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors spent on detectives bred some of the hostility and suspicion lying behind the strike. The waste of this method sticks up like a sore thumb along side the inexpensive welfare activities of such companies as Endicott Johnson, whose workers are among the most contented in the country. Productive efficiency as well as morale goes out the window when spics sneak in the side door. How long it will be before espionage disappears depends on how quickly...