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Word: thumbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Students at Ava, Ill.'s Trico Consolidated High School were driving teachers wild by doing "red outs." They knelt, took a deep breath, put one thumb in their mouths, and then blew (without actually exhaling) until they fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Keeping a muscular thumb on Berkeley College throughout the game, and scoring three touchdowns, Kirkland yesterday afternoon battered its way to the Harvard-Yale intramural championship. The game was characterized by rough, at times vicious, line play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

When you get to the Stadium this afternoon you'll see hawkers waving two kinds of A. A. News in the air. Buy them both. Open them both. Each has the customary lineups and Chesterfield ads in the center fold. But as you thumb through one of them, something will strike you funny. And if you look carefully, you will discover the Lampoon has done it again...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Valpey, was running the Hoosier backfield in the first quarter. He had accounted for about 10 tackles in as many minutes when on one play he collided head-on with fullback Bert Hoffman and collapsed dizzily upon the turf. In his dazed condition he only realized that his left thumb was broken, but the trainers on the bench surmised more. They rushed out onto the field to investigate and started plying him with question to find out how hard he had been hit. They asked him his name, they asked him that day it was, and finally they asked...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Football, Basketball, Wrestling; All In Butch Jordan's Repertoire | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...said that individual personalities should be the primary consideration in selecting juries, but offered as a rule of thumb that old women and young men were likely to be more lenient than young women and old men, and hence should be preferred by the defense lawyer in picking a jury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leibowitz Rounds Out Law School Workshop | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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