Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
...there certainly would be room enough if the new Poetry Room drew as few people as the old one did. The librarians, however, are afraid that with the Poetry Room in a more convenient location than in the Widener, indifference might give way to curiosity and traffic would become thicker. If this happens, and it is not likely, then perhaps Radcliffe might have limited use of the records during the times when the records will not be available to Harvard men in the morning, for instance...
...Graham became president of the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Institute of Nuclear Studies, a position in which he was to be given access to confidential U.S. military information. The Security Office of the Atomic Energy Commission took one look at Frank Graham's FBI file, thicker than a metropolitan telephone book, and refused to clear him for access to atomic information. Then the AEC made its own investigation. Last week, it cleared Graham. It was true, the commission conceded, that Graham, in espousing liberal causes, had at times been associated with persons and organizations "influenced by motives or views...
Professor Menzel continues to point out that the hypothetical dust cloud which enveloped the earth was thicker at some places than at others. When the world passed through a thick mass of dust, the earth experienced fairly warm weather and the tropics probably flourished. Then as the planet passed into thinner areas, the earth would grow cold and led packs formed...
...Until recently, the U.S. Southeast had never been good corn country. A few years ago the U.S. Department of Agriculture began breeding special hybrid corns to suit Southern conditions. In North Carolina, whose corn yields ran around 22 bushels an acre, the new "Dixie" hybrids, lavishly fertilized and planted thicker than ordinary corn, made 125 bushels...