Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...Crimson put its best foot forward back in 1875, handing the Elis a decisive defeat to the tune of four touches and four goals to nothing, and both teams have been at it thick and fast ever since. Yale teams have entered the win columns more often than not, and as the series stands now, they own 36 victories to Harvard's 21. Six games have ended in scoreless ties...
There, six weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...
Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...