Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulders rise the second fingers of the right and left hands snap simultaneously from thumb to palm with a crisp double report. * In 1927 he adjusted a six-month dispute between the miners and mineowners of northern France which had threatened to tie up the entire French coal industry...
...crew. The gradual emancipation of athletics as Harvard which has resulted in the present independence of their administrators, is also indicated by the appointment of Mr. Whiteside It is significant that his selection brings to Harvard a coach who can hardly be suspected of being under the thumb of alumni influence. It should be possible to keep the new slate of Harvard rowing clean of any such suspicion; and when this hope becomes an actuality, the outburst of traditional Bulletin patriotism will be accepted as perfectly justified...
...somewhat less than half-way in its present advocacy of the Classics as an essential part in the culture of an educated man. While Divisional Examinations have made obligatory for candidates in Literatures or History and Literature the study of two ancient authors, the student has been left to thumb his own way through the Biad and the Odyssey during the summer preceding his Senior year, and generally reaches the time of the examinations with inadequate preparation for them and no appreciation at all for the works he has studied. This may be argued back to the omnipresent evil...