Search Details

Word: thumbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Rules of Thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Stopper. In Boston, Dr. Richard H. Norton offered a solution (tested on his granddaughter) for the problem of thumb sucking by girls aged three and up: appeal to their vanity, paint their nails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

MacArthur was almost alone in this opinion six years ago. The Neutrality Act and the Tydings-McDuffie Act (freeing the Philippines in 1946) expressed U.S. desire to cut its ties with an unhappy world. Moreover, almost all professional soldiers believed that the Philippines were a sore thumb stuck out in the Pacific that could be chopped off in one Japanese try. They wanted to get out. The Philippine Department of the U.S. Army was instructed to get ready to leave when Philippine independence arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destiny's Child | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...minutes. Teachers first show students the various pressure points on the body where serious bleeding can be stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: F is for First Aid | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...left are Chinese, the two on the right Japanese. There is no infallible way of telling them apart, because the same racial strains are mixed in both. Even an anthropologist, with calipers and plenty of time to measure heads, noses, shoulders, hips, is sometimes stumped. A few rules of thumb - not always reliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Affairs: HOW TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE JAPS | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | Next