Word: thumbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still yields books to thumb, plumb well your page...
...general public is also invited. Attention is called to the fact that of the 170 odd editions of "The Complete Angler," which have been published, the Fearing collection given to the College in 1915 by Daniel Butler Fearing, A.M. '11, contains more than 160, ranging in size from the "thumb edition" measuring only 2x1 3-4 inches, to the "Lea and Dove" edition in two large volumes. Among the Bunyan items is a Bible printed in 1637 which has what is supposed to be the autograph of John Bunyan on the title page of the New Testament...
...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...
...material for the Yale end rush places is abundant, no stars are in sight. Rosener, the most brilliant performer of the end rush squad, has not been in condition for a fortnight. Frank Lynch, the former Exeter and Yale freshman end, reported for practice this fall with a thumb badly bruised in an automobile accident, while Art Gates, regular end last fall, has not been able to line up for a week. Comerford, freshman captain last year, and Moseley, varsity substitute, are in the lead for the competition, with Nichols, of the third eleven last year, and "Buck" Church...
...them some of the loyalty which they are expected to manifest toward the University; it is also a matter of serving the public by placing in positions that call for responsible leadership college graduates who are competent to the task. This is not an age for rule of thumb methods and haphazard guessing about our life work. It is an age of scientific examination into facts and conditions and the deliberate, foresighted preparation of men and women for handling specific problems. The task of vocational guidance is at our door. Perhaps no greater work ever confronted a university than that...