Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception...
...their sympathetic teacher, are telling evidences of the hold Professor Atwood exercised over his pupils. In the undergraduate's eyes, his departure leaves a serious gap in his department; and many students who, in selecting their courses of study, seek "the man rather than the course," will no longer thumb carefully the pages on which courses in Physical Geography are described in the Elective Pamphlet...
...perhaps find it hard to summon mentally and definite, unmistakable plot which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...
...return of T. M. Avery '21, a veteran of last year's seven, who has been out with a broken thumb, was another encouraging feature of yesterday's workout, as strength in the forward line is much needed. In the scrimmage that followed the usual combination drill, Avery alternated with R. W. Emmons, 3rd, '20, at right wing. After the practice Coach Calflin gave the men a half-hour blackboard talk in the Varsity Club...