Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Airport will have a seaplane terminal at its south end, can be extended half its size again by filling in to the northeast. Peskiest bug in the project is the new, and roundly protested, research laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, sticking up like a sore thumb on Gravelly Point no feet above the Potomac and just to the west of the proposed field. Last week CAA and army engineers were planning to build the necessary air field structures in line with the laboratory building. Only other important objection to Gravelly Point has been that air activity...
...would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted in a butler part...
Patriarch Miron Cristea, who is well under the King's thumb, suddenly issued what is for Rumania an enlightened Minorities Statute. Between sunup and sundown one day it gave a new status to 1,568,000 Magyars, 900,000 Jews, 790,000 Russians, 792,000 Germans, 400,000 Slavs, 290,000 Bulgars and 170,000 Turks, who together with smaller groups make up nearly one-third of Carol II's subjects...
...supplementary keyboard is a strip of flexible material, played by depressing it with the thumb and forefinger, the pressure determining the volume. The Krakauer creation, using piano strings for its fundamental tones, has no sounding board and (like the Hammond) imitates other instruments, or invents new tone colors, by electrically mixed overtones. By pushing the proper combination of its ten buttons, it can even be made to sound like a plain piano. It contains a radio and phonograph. Price...