Word: thumbnails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...
...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...
Plainly pleased. Dictator Kemal plied British Ambassador Sir George R. Clerk with champagne, toasted George V, traced with his long thumbnail on a map the places where Turks slaughtered 34,000 soldiers of the King...
Your issue of April 20 gives a thumbnail sketch of the life of Nick Longworth and credits him with having attended Harvard and "conducting the college orchestra,'' but fails to mention the fact that he graduated from the College of Law, University of Cincinnati...
...Chancellor thumbed not once but several times. When either of the Germans made a demand to which the Allies were not prepared to yield, the right Snowden thumbnail was placed tight under the Snowden upper front teeth and snapped twice in accompaniment to the words: "Not a bit of it! [snap] not a bit of it! [snap]" Provocative though this gesture was, Dr. Curtius and Dr. Moldenhaur did not seem to think they were being insulted, since the bony fingers of the Yorkshireman were not spread but closed and doubled as he thumbed...