Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee is composed of a Chairman (M. Kalinin, popularly supposed to be President of Soviet Russia), a Secretary and 15 members. Although the Presidium has power to make war, confer decorations, ratify peace treaties, receive the credentials of foreign diplomatic representatives, etc., it is in its turn under the thumb of the Union Congress of Soviets. However, between the sessions of the Executive Committee, business is carried on by the Presidium...
...even Bryan. His "hope" that a Progressive Democrat would be chosen to fill the vacant seat from Colorado may be a hit at the conservative Underwood. Possibly he means to support his son-in-law, whom he allowed to perish miserably at San Francisco when a turn of his thumb might have made him President McAdoo, after recommending another candidate to Governor Sweet, has also endorsed Mr. Wilson's choice, while Bryan backed up McAdoo's first selection...
Perhaps finger-print signatures are almost as ancient as those of the cross, plain and simple. Pirate stories abound with descriptions of contracts, signed in blood by solemn imprint of the fingertip--or, more often, of the "massive thumb". Tom Sawyer's famous compact has been an inspiration to many a romantic youth. And artists, from time immemorial, have used the finger-print as a personal signature on drawings and paintings. But in spite of so honorable an ancestry, the idea of compulsory finger-prints seems to be meeting with some opposition...
...means, the laws by which he may use the tools; it can teach him methods of thinking, laws of reason, processes of gathering and analyzing and arranging, and giving solution to the facts of his future problems; his visions it can stimulate. Experience teaches men the rule of thumb, but culture should teach men the generalizations and truths of mind. A smattering of Biology is useless; knowledge of the scientific method is invaluable. And so with the other departments:--methods are the things which all men naturally desire to know. They are what men live by. Give me a universal...
...study European men of letters; thumb their works; admire the artistic legacies of foreign painters and sculptors; trace the campaigns of their foremost military leaders; find our modern life more closely intertwined with that of England, France, and Italy than ever before: yet that last needed touch is denied many of us--that of seeing the contrasting environments in which these men lived and evolved their works...