Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handy rule of thumb for the new scoring: to compute non-vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply the number of undertricks by 200, subtract 100; for vulnerable doubled penalties, multiply by 300, subtract...
...British are so under the thumb of the Zionists that they have forgotten the elementary facts of good administration in Palestine," said George Antonius, noted Arabian student of the Near East in a speech in Adams House last night...
From active service on the dangerous seas of the Spanish-American war to an obscure exhibit and improvised coat rack, might be the thumb-nail history of the swivel gun now located in the basement of the Freshman Union...
...expected to thumb This Week's pages, practically none will have the remotest idea whose show it is. Even if they knew the man's name- Joseph Palmer Knapp-it would mean little or nothing to them: just as it means nothing to the 8,250,000 readers of Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home...
...Pacific Coast, to Warm Springs, to Washington. And soon other newshawks noted that he and Mrs. Dall got on well together. In November 1933, Boettigers wife, who had two children by a previous marriage, divorced him in Chicago. She charged cruelty, accused him of hitting her, breaking her thumb. Last July Anna Dall divorced Curtis Dall in Reno on grounds of extreme cruelty. Last month Boettiger quit his job as White House correspondent for the rabidly anti-New Deal Tribune, got a new and less embarrassing one with Cinema Tsar Will Hays...