Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation stands today, there are four separate groups in control. At the top is the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, having the final say in all matters, yet with only three undergraduate representatives. Then there is the lethargic Undergraduate Athletic Council comprised entirely of students, under the thumb of the H. A. A. and powerless to serve as more than an advisory board to the senior committee. Finally there are two organizations regulating House sports. The addition of still committee to this hierarchy man seem the opposite of what is called for. But actually none of the four...
...should have said Hitler is a god. It does not matter whether he is a good or bad god, because he got into the wrong sphere. He does not know it yet, but he will know it, when he-some day in the not far future-sits sucking his thumb on some lonely island...
...long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...
Safely out from under his oxygen tent, tough, square-rigged Eddie Ricken backer wiggled up a wan thumb to prove his recovery. The old ace (28 planes and balloons downed in World War I) confessed that after three weeks' puzzling over the Atlanta plane crash which took eight lives and nearly his own, "I can find no explanation. We were just flying 1,000 feet too low." No man to be stopped by a broken hip, four fractured ribs, Captain Eddie summoned his Eastern Air Linemen, commenced to do business from his hospital...
...French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long ago: as a nucleus for an Arab front against the Axis and as a threat to French-held Syria...