Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with twisted pine trees, thatch-roofed tea houses. All week long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant red flowers. Only once in three or four years does the Crown of Thorns bloom, hardly ever at this season, never before...
...imperceptible cushion of air held between a thumb and forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...Monday, Wall Street was flooded with rumors that a house would fail. Tuesday morning stories of pending insolvencies were thicker, more persistent. At 1:30 President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum of the Exchange. Trading was supplanted by a tense silence. Then an excited roar greeted the announcement that J. A. Sisto & Co. Inc. were unable to meet their engagements. Selling pressure increased. By the close of the market 34% of the common stocks listed were at least 20% below their old 1929 bottoms, while 59% touched or dipped under that level...
...secret to Playwright Zoe Akins, it probably has something to do with Mrs. Warren's profession. The three prime movers of the story are ladies of easy virtue who like the same kind of money. One is prudent, one is predatory, one is impulsive. They cheerfully admit being "thicker than thieves and more adventurous than the Three Musketeers." But their interests are not always common. Jean, the predatory, willowy Italian blonde, keeps stealing men away from Polaire (Muriel Kirkland), the redheaded, impulsive one. To do this Jean resorts to such tactics as removing her clothing, merely wearing a coat...
...blood is thicker than gratitude. In the night after Dr. Irigoyen's temporary retirement, General Uriburu secretly joined a group of wealthy and aristocratic brother officers, all bent on revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...