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...satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half of one percent of those who attend universities, he proposes to relegate to some secluded cloister where they could thumb the pages of forgotten manuscripts, unannoyed by the sound and fury of the present-day educational institution...
...sharp-eyed companions of the now Mrs. Barnett busied themselves with papers. They asked Jackson to sign them. He did so by smudging his thumb in ink and across the documents. One of the men (Barnett guessed they were lawyers) later told him that he had given to the American Baptist Home Mission Society $550,000 of his royalty oil account, and a like amount to his wife...
...five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...
Other men discovered electricity; others magnetism. They phrased mathematical laws which explained in a rule-of-thumb way, electrical and magnetic action. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) put these laws most precisely?and made electricity and magnetism nearly the same thing. Maxwell's laws made possible electric light and power, telephones, radios...
...Lefthanded Leonardo often rubbed his pigments with his curiously burned right thumb...