Word: thickest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above all, every one, even those with the thickest brains, can see that the division between the economy of peace and the economy of war is simply absurd...
...them. Providing an elaborate burlesque of summer barn theatres, with their mauve-tinted playwrights, dimwit patronesses and clod-like performers, it lunges wildly in every direction. It jazzes up Freud, mimics Dali, writhes and wriggles, gambols and glides, rains schottisches, streams gavottes, blows ballets. The atmosphere, at its thickest, is very warm for mayhem. The whole thing suggests perfectly the hysterical side of summer theatres, but doesn't turn the funny side into laughs...
Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) has spent more time looking at Mars than any other living astronomer. Some years ago he made photographs showing that there are clouds and storms in the atmosphere of Mars, mostly in the neighborhood of the Martian equator. These are thickest in the early Martian morning, quickly vanish as the sun climbs...
...Curtiss and Astin found that cosmic rays were thickest twelve miles up, where the intensity is 200 times that at sea level. This agrees closely with the findings of Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan. who sent balloons to 92,000 ft., recorded a cosmic-ray peak...
...last week, when flies in de Basil's soup seemed thickest, handsome Prince Serge Obolensky (onetime Diaghilev supporter) and his cohorts of Manhattan socialites (Aldrich. Biddle. Vanderbilt et al.) and White Russians thundered to the rescue. To the Obolensky-de Basil standard rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery...