Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber stands. With his newsprint plant furnishing an expanding market, Kurth estimates that farmers can get $5 to $7 an acre every year from timber alone, and "you don't need a subsidy or price support program...
...house his school, which he named Cooper Union, the wealthy inventor (a washing machine, the "Tom Thumb" locomotive, a musical cradle that rocked itself) and iron and glue manufacturer had built a handsome five-story structure on Astor Place, hired 21 faculty members. Two thousand artisans and working girls enrolled the first year for the Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs...
...village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
Silvera started the game because regular receiver Yogi Berra's previously injured left thumb swelled up as a result of Reynold's sterling pitches...