Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...
Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
...middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum are played in pitches and rhythms to match the language...
...wartime Washington, jostled thick with generals and job-polishers, clerks, clockwatchers and hard-working hands in the factories of Government, the mimeograph has always until now been the principal channel of communication with the people. But last week Washington saw examples of another way to marshal and move the millions-through the personal appeals and planned repetition of organized advertising...
...advertising. This fact is confirmed by another Washington move: short weeks ago Elmer Davis set up a new department in the Office of War Information-an advertising department, the Bureau of Campaigns. Its purpose: to coordinate the present advertising activities of the various Government departments. Its head: softspoken, thick-spectacled Ken Dyke, former head of the Association of National Advertisers, and now on leave from the National Broadcasting...