Word: fingertips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mutt & Jeff. St. Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...
...wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
...kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into the past, and has introduced a strict, well-disciplined machinery to replace the former hit-or-run system of fire-fighting. The modern chief has a fingertip knowledge of the latest fire prevention methods, is a combination of business man, doctor, psychologist, race-track driver, and engineer. Every one of his men looks forward to officers stripes some day, and knows he has to work to get them. The old time courage is still there, plus...