Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dayang Dayang Piandao tried to seize the throne for herself or her husband (TIME, June 29). As a suffraget and a good friend of matronly Aurora Aragon Quezon, wife of the Commonwealth President she had the support of the Philippine Government which wants to bring the Moros under its thumb...
...impotent Malay Peninsula is to supply 40% of the world's tin. Enhanced is the Sultan of Selangor's glory by the fact that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, K.C.M.G., C.M.G., O.B.E...
Tenant In San Francisco, while rowing over rent payments with Grocer Daniel Del Carlo, Landlord George Figone wagged his thumb in his tenant's face, had it completely bitten...
...once the cloak of academic dignity is ripped from Military Science I the result is strange. There is a dash of mathematics, in which errors of 30 per cent aren't considered at all. There is a hint of a rule of thumb psychology in the lectures on "leadership" and "discipline." There are long weeks spent in memorizing the names of the parts of out-of-date cannon and the labels of the bags of powder. There are detailed descriptions on the workings of everything from obsolete machine guns to automobiles...
...bite my thumb...