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Word: thumbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it was not going to be his day. Although he is a fullback, Brown is primarily an outside runner, and he needs good footing to outmaneuver defenders on the sweeps. "The difference between a great back and a good back is only this much," he said, holding his thumb and forefinger an inch or so apart. "It is small things you can do that other guys can't do effectively. On a heavy, slippery field like this, you can't make a violent move to avoid a tackler. You just have to go into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: One for the Cripples | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...Terriers' high scorer is guard Ken Ackerman, who is averaging 16.8 points per game, largely because of his excellent driving ability. The other guard, 5-9 "Tom Thumb" Zavorskas, is a good ball handler but not a high scorer...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Quintet Should Trounce Terriers' Luckless Squad | 12/15/1965 | See Source »

...permanent registration number, much the way Americans already have Social Security, draft and credit numbers. Says he: "In the future, electronic scanners at polling places will very probably be able to identify voters, or prevent repeats and unauthorized ballots, by a split-second survey of a voter's thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TOWARD VOTING AS A POSITIVE PLEASURE | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Freshman Executive Athletic Board; Freshman Soccer; Winter and Spring Track; Played "Huncamunca" in Kirkland's "Tom Thumb"; House Football, Soccer, Track, Gelf; Dean's List; P.B.H. Blood D Ive; Hasty Pudding Club; "Vagabonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Marshal Candidates | 12/2/1965 | See Source »

...done something far more significant. The double murder in the fishing village was the first capital crime ever solved by the comparison of fingerprints, and that solution constituted a major breakthrough for the infant science of criminology. In less than a century, that science has developed from rule of thumb into an enormously intricate medico-legal discipline, and the story of its development, as described by Jurgen Thorwald (The Century of the Surgeon) with impressive literary and scientific competence, is a tale of blood and bloodhounds, wills and pills, pathologists and psychopaths. For sheer suspense and wallowing aceldama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keeping Up with the Bones | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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