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Word: thumbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government. Significant fact: KCKN, in the heart of the long isolationist Middle West, is owned and operated by Senator Arthur Capper, an anemometrist who has never had to wet his thumb to know how the political wind blows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Long Views | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...

Author: By Paul C. Sheeline, | Title: Employment Bureau Handles All Jobs | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

...thumb-in-the-soup technique, though. That's toe coarse. My main strategy is to concentrate on individuals. That works best at small gatherings, where there isn't too much liquor being served and nobody is drunk. Then I can work up a beautiful tension between the guests and the hostess. They fell terribly sorry and embarrassed at my antics, because they imagine I'm ruining the whole evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Butler, in Cahoots with Hostess, Runs Rampant at Parties | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

Crowded in the back seat in a nest of cameras, radio and machine guns, cramped by bulky flying clothes, thumb-fingered by heavy gloves, roosting over his camera as he takes pictures of enemy territory, the observer is jolted by rough air, well knows what it is to be airsick, what it is to be bounced about by peppery pilots (who seldom worry about the guy behind). He has the daylights scared out of him half the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: C. Obsr. | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Fast | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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