Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement printed in the CRIMSON, that "psychologists believe Jung under Nazi thumb" is evidently a sly dig at a serious and respectable group of scientists. As well say, "Psychologists believe adult mountain lion tamed by boy scout." Nothing less true could be thought of Dr. Jung. He slipped form under his father's thumb and later from under Freud's, and since then no one has even been able to put salt on his tall...
Disapproval of Dr. C. G. Jung's selection to be one of the speakers in the Symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior" and to be a recipient of Tercentenary Honors has been registered by several Boston psychologists, believing that his scientific integrity has been partially stifled under the Nazi thumb...
...Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...
David Martin as a gift for Franklin's family when the subject was 61. Franklin specified the thumb on chin, made no objection to the warts (see cut). Ten years later Jean Baptiste Greuze made him elderly and dignified in a fur collar and fine blue velvet coat to match his eyes...
...that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student at Columbia...