Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, no rule of thumb can solve the problem. Nevertheless, President Lowell's recommendation to emphasize avocational rather than vocational training can be well taken by Freshmen as a guiding principle. Neither this nor any other advice can prevent some mistakes in the choice of a field. But the meeting this morning, by supplementing nine hundred unformed philosophies of education, will help Freshmen to determine wisely what department they should enter...
Because Frank Lloyd Wright of Spring Green, Wis. has not been appointed to the commission of architects that is designing Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition for 1933,earnest esthetes gathered in Manhattan auditoriums three nights in succession last week to thumb their long intelligent noses at the Commission,-to honor the man they consider the greatest living architect. Architect Wright, who has never considered bashfulness a blessing, presided like a benign deity over all three meetings: at the University Club, at Town Hall, at the New School for Social Research...
...American Legion is taking an inauspicious moment for the country, and an opportune one for the organization itself, to put a large thumb in the affairs of state. Orders which were sent out from national headquarters of the organization yesterday urge the soldiers to hurl a barrage at Washington demanding immediate legislation on treasury grants...
...that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening to other people...
...stool pigeon. Then the net would be sprung. At once there would be a mass of fluttering, struggling pigeons, with heads protruding through the meshes. The fowler and his assistants would rush to the massacre, which was the crushing of the head of each individual bird between the thumb and forefinger...