Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra (done in 1906) was naked as a winter oak. The nudes of those early years were realistically proportioned, often graceful. But Vigeland's conception of the human figure changed over the decades, and his work came more & more to reflect his new (and increasingly stereotyped) ideal-thick-bodied women of action and bull-necked men. Among the samples in Frogner Park: a male tossing a female over his shoulders; a male carrying off a female while she, with one leg over his shoulder and another around his chest, pulls his hair; a female knocking her male over with...
...thick-walled Widener can never be air-conditioned, Metcalf said...
...centerfielder of the New York Yankees had the worst charley horse he could remember. He wore a thick bandage over his left thigh (to support the strained muscles) and a second bandage around his middle to hold up the first one. Said Joseph Paul DiMaggio, more in simple fact than in complaint: "I feel like a mummy...
...G.C.A. units are bringing in Allied transports through all kinds of weather. At Gander, Newfoundland, G.C.A. is guiding in U.S. Air Force and commercial planes. At New York's La Guardia Field, Chicago's Municipal Airport, and Washington's National Airport, G.C.A. approaches are routine in thick weather...
...class sections run up only to row PP. Rows QQ to ZZ are in the colonnade, where yard-thick pillars block large parts of the playing field from view. So the colonnade has been left to overflow freshmen and graduate students...