Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
...made 34 homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because he is handsome, frisky and religiously orthodox. He has invented his own glove, which is larger than standard, with webbing between thumb and index finger. He makes $7,000 a year, prefers not to play on Yom Kippur. Next week, his well-to-do father, president of the Acme & Textile Shrinking Works, plans to order $500 worth of World Series tickets...
...punched nose will usually stop bleeding if it is held between thumb and finger for a few moments, if cold water is sloshed into the face, if something cold is pressed against the back of the neck...
...Eccles bill placed the Federal Reserve Board under the thumb of the President by giving him power to appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped earthly riches (TIME, Feb. 25). He was last week ready literally to defend the lira with Italian blood. Abruptly by a super-drastic step he placed Italy's entire gold resources under his Dictator's thumb...