Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thumb-twiddling in local bookstores will come to a quick and today when Memorial Hall opens its doors to authorization-seeking veterans at 9 o'clock. The Mem Hall office will be open daily until February...
...speculator's rules of thumb had gone by the board. Once brokers thought stocks were worth buying if they sold at no more than ten times their annual earnings. But last week, even the 30 "blue chips" used to measure the Dow-Jones industrial average were selling at only 8½ times their earnings, the lowest ratio in over 20 years...
Make Mine Manhattan (music by Richard Lewine; lyrics and sketches by Arnold Horwitt; produced by Joseph Hyman) offers gay, lively, irreverent homage to the world's most densely populated island. East Side, West Side, all around the town it darts, its thumb to its nose, but with a slightly dreamy look in its eyes. Manhattanites, swelling, with small-town pride at its air of big-town savvy, will be the show's best audience. But out-of-towners, whether from Butte or Brooklyn, should find...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...
Harvard also got a thumb on a new intercollegiate cup donated by Columbia for the H.Y.P.C. matches, as well as retiring the old Princeton-donated one. Ten consecutive victories are necessary to retire the new Columbia...