Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Felmeth has been the sparkplug of the Bell Boy outfit in every game. His passes to Sorlein and Axtell have kept the team in the thick of the flight, and at present Lowell is tied with Kirkland for league-leading honors. A win today will give the Bell Boys sole possession of first...
...than those of ultraviolet light and almost as short as those of radium's gamma rays. The shorter waves are the farther they penetrate into matter before their energy is dispersed. The stronger the voltage the shorter the resulting X-ray wave length and the greater the penetration. Thick Navy steels can be radiographed with 400,000-volt machines; but the pictures are not clear and require an hour of exposure for every minute required by the 1,000,000-volters...
...Stimson retreated; but he looped three thick strings around last week's deal: 1) production of the planes "must not interfere" with military output; 2) all ships must have reinforced floors, wider doors, be "instantly convertible" into troop carriers; 3) even after delivery to the airlines, all planes are subject to requisition at any time...
...Order," a thick, 1000-page tome which might more aptly have been entitled "A Thousand and One Lies," contains excerpts from every important speech by Adolph Hitler from 1922 until the invasion of Russia. Not so much a historical text as a study in abnormal psychology, the book offers almost unfathomable opportunities for following the twisted paths, the worn grooves, and the perverted by-paths of perhaps the cleverest and surely the most repelling mentality produced by a century potent with many evils...
...opened a big ledger and put on a pair of thick, horn-rimmed glasses. "Young man, you must know firstly that this one meagre contribution protects you from the appeals of every local and national charity, including the greater Boston Community Fund, but that last year this contribution amounted to only 25 cents per undergraduate." Vag thought of beautiful House dining halls, and rich meals, and he sighed in sympathy. "The employees of this great university, the maids and biddies and watchmen, contributed $4650 last year to the community fund, but undergraduates gave only $2200." Vag shuddered at that forbidding...