Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when his wife Sarah died, he got the answer. After he buried her he called in the local tombstone merchant, and told him to get to work. He wanted a tomb as big as a house, with six polished stone pillars and a shiny granite roof as thick as a bomb shelter. He also wanted two marble statues: Sarah and John M. Davis as young folks, sitting discreetly at opposite ends of a love seat. The statues were made in Italy, modeled after pictures from the Davis photo album and they cost a mint of money; but John liked them...
...warning at 500 ft. (useful in approaching a fogbound airport or coming down through a low ceiling), it is not intended as a complete blind-landing device. Its chief usefulness is for flying between airports: if developed a year ago, it might have prevented several disasters when airplanes in thick weather hit unexpected "terrain...
...pound oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface of the water, and my palm, here, is the blade of the oar . . ." The boyish enthusiasm over crew and Bert Haines...
...first concern was for sleep. After a catnap in Manhattan, he buzzed off to Washington, got a full seven hours in his Wardman Park suite. Next day at a press conference, he told newsmen that criticism of his trip did not bother him. "My hide is very thick," he said...
Over 80 astute College men have already penetrated the supposedly thick veil of secrecy surrounding the identity of the Harvard Dramatic Club's "Miss Juno," alias Theodore P. Allegretti '47, HDC announced yesterday as they closed the contest four days ahead of the original deadline, naming J. Jay Hughes '48 lucky recipient of a complete evening with the unmasked maid...