Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projects," he says. "We can think of the possibilities of drying a warm-blooded animal like a dog, rehydrating it and then expect it to live." The main problem, as Luyet sees it, is mechanical. It is not yet possible to freeze objects thicker than 1/100th of an inch into suspended animation...
...debate. For the next 36 hours and 20 minutes-with but one 63-minute break-Tories and Socialists battled one another across the dividing aisle. When it was all over and the last sleepy M.P. had dragged himself home to bed, Hansard, the official House of Commons record, was thicker by 250,000 words...
...Gloom settled thicker in the Loop. NBC axed 15 minutes off another "Chicago" TV show, the intelligent fantasy...
...week: "Both W.R. and I always had great respect for Eleanor Roosevelt. She is a great woman . . . When Pegler started hacking at Mrs. Roosevelt day after day, it got boring and annoying . . . W.R. wired Pegler many times to cut it out; each time Pegler laid it on thicker . . . I never read his stuff any more...
Golfer de Wit also noticed some other differences in the way the game is played at home and abroad. "The grass was higher, much thicker than it is in Holland. I found you have to hit the ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here...