Word: thick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown operating room. After cutting his way to the heart by conventional surgery, Dr. Smithy injected four cubic centimeters of 2% procaine into the heart muscle at the apex. Then he opened the heart wall, passed his valvulotome into the ventricular chamber, and cut away a segment of the thick tissue blocking the valve. That was the critical point...
Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...
...Lane stepped into the plane that, in July 1945, was to take him to his post as U.S. Ambassador to Poland, few Americans yet realized that Lane's mission was doomed to the futilities of diplomatic protests. But no Big-Three doubletalk, no top-level deals, not even thick applications of F.D.R.'s charm on Stalin, could alter the inescapable fact: the Russians were...
Hair Oil & Aluminum. The polished surface of the mirror was transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
Vertical City. Last week, peering excitedly through thick, black-rimmed glasses at the models for his new building, he was still blasting away at everybody who didn't see things his way. "Garden cities are just a waste of space. Rows of houses, each one cutting off the view from the next, and always too far away from where people work. Skyscrapers are veritable prisons. They suffocate their inmates, deprive them of sun and air. A vertical city of glass and steel, open to the sun, is the ideal. Some people think I want human beings to live like...