Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...River without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked the Japanese with poisoned arrows; some hunted the heads of unwary Chinese...
...signal drum is made by an expert drum maker who digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...with the close of the first session, the Army Air Force moved in, the pitiful remnant of female Yardlings, 73 strong, were squeezed into Wigg, and the remainder went home. And the crowds of males lining Wig Alley got thicker than ever
Ships appeared heading westward under a frantic head of steam, evidently trying to get away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...
...advantage of welded magnesium on the wing surfaces of planes is that it can be used in thicker sheets than steel and aluminum. This increased thickness has two effects: 1) it lessens surface vibrations which in time will weaken the wing; 2) it simplifies the maze of ribs and spars now built into wings to stiffen them...