Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates, except seniors completing degree requirements, are advised to thumb through their course books for possible leads concerning next year's courses. Preliminary Fall Term Study Cards are due at University Hall not later than 5 p.m. today...
...ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole blood, telephoned Yakima for more blood, and arranged for an ambulance trip to Spokane. Relays of state troopers rushed the blood 110 miles from Yakima; then Dr. Fairbanks bundled his patient up for the equally long drive to Spokane. He kept his thumb on the artery...
...after midnight before a Spokane surgeon could finish tying off the artery above and below the break and, until he had done, Dr. Fairbanks' thumb was still in demand...
Bruce Thurmond is good enough to play second or third man, but he has been playing fourth because of a thumb injury he suffered during the practice rounds at Pinehurst. Against Boston University, however, he shot a 71, sec only to Ted Cooney...
...worked up from the opposable thumb to the implosible bomb, he has learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food he eats, the water he drinks and the air he breathes. To safeguard these, he has to work, in an endless spiral, for more complete control of his environment...