Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless his autobiography shows a marked kinship between Author Milne and Christopher Robin, his famed creature. Youngest and cutest of the three sons of John Vine Milne, owner and Headmaster of Henley House School, little Alan, thumb in mouth, could read at two, entered Westminster School at eleven, ceased being a prodigy the next year when he caught up to his older brother...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30 or 40 miles behind the lines, before he is permitted the medical luxuries of thoroughgoing surgical care...
...than $50,000,000 annually. But by 1925 that figure had dwindled nearly 50%, and the heaps of records in Victor's stockrooms had begun to gather dust. By 1932 Victor had passed from the hands of the bankers to RCA, where it became a horse's thumb among RCA's booming radio projects. Victor's competitors did no better. The 1932 gross for the entire industry reached a scant...
McNutt's anti-labor record stands out like a sore thumb and his attempt to make it seem to appear that organized labor is friendly to him is hypocritical beyond measure...
...most Congressmen the pleasure of putting thumb to nose and waving all four fingers in the direction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was last week a fully satisfying occupation (see p. 12). But to Congress' thoughtful fringe (New Deal and anti-New Deal) there was a far more interesting occupation, the same occupation as that of many a businessman, trying to answer a question...