Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a moment for returning white men to recognize the little town on the Sulu Sea. All the wood-framed, tin-roofed, prewar houses were gone; sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
...results are obvious. The course catalogue has grown thicker; faculty research projects have boomed; but the men ready and willing to give tutorial have been spread thinner and thinner...
...they suspected, the slight explosion in the air shook the ice for considerable distances, sending to the geophones long trains of vibrations. The frequency of the vibrations, they found, varied with the thickness of the ice: the thicker the ice, the slower the vibrations...
...smoke got thicker, the talk angrier, and the post commander's bell rang more frantically. "Didn't the national Legion decide all this? What are we discussing it for?" demanded a fuddled Legionnaire. "We can't do anything contrary to the edict of the national Legion," bawled one World War I veteran. "Edict!" roared grizzled old Herman Wolff. "I never would have joined the damned organization if I knew I was subject to edicts. One hundred percent Americanism...
Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...