Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he reached 80, his friends and relatives were amazed at the continued clarity and vigor of his mind. His bristly sideburns were pure white; wrinkles had deepened and his gold-barred spectacles were made of thicker glass. But he would not reminisce, dodder or preach plaintively like an ordinary old man. "With him," they said, "it is always the next month, the next year, the future of humanity...
...disintegrated. Some of the shrewd little two-legged organisms that scurry hither and thither on the Earth's surface had known of the event in advance and were watching what they call their "northwest" skies to see the meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling chunks of rock to become incandescent with friction. "Shooting stars," murmured lovers in the dark. "The tears of St. Lawrence," whispered the devout, for Aug. 10 is the anniversary of that saint's martyrdom.* In Manhattan and at Schenectady, certain earthlings, adept at communicating...
...expedition the oldest is Okop, some sixty miles form the coast, or much further inland than the others and further south than all except Muyll, which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared not put one room directly above...
...confused by a ghostly image that arose out of the real man that stood there (Bob Fitzsimmons Jr.), the image of another* baldish, freckle-shouldered fighter in whose whiplike arms, thin waist and slender legs lurked terrible punching power. The real man that was seen by younger eyes had thicker legs and more reddish hair than his father, but not quite that look of Irish lightning on the leash. But there was great cheering, and more when Jack Delaney entered the ring with some of his Bridgeport, Conn., acquaintances...
...hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt. Saving your displeasure, the Surrey Union Hunt has ridden out so seldom of late that the foxes are getting thicker and stealing our poultry and stock. We have a license to kill vermin, and we thought we might as well have a bit of sport while we were about it. . . . So far we've shot eleven foxes. . . ." British correspondents had not the heart to continue the story of aristocratic discomfiture beyond...