Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intense activity during the past four months has plunged the organization into the thick of state, national, and University progressive action. In a door-bell ringing campaign during October and November, Liberal Union men clambered on the state political bandwagon, supporting Martha Sharp and Oliver S. Allen for seats in the House. Both were defeated by incumbents Joseph Martin and Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers...
Geologists are fascinated by the difference between the two great oceans. One of the more daring, Alfred Wegener of Germany, proffered an alluring theory to explain it. According to Wegener, the interior of the earth is a thick, hot, plastic substance. The continents, in large part comparatively light granite, float on it like icebergs. Under the oceans, the earth's crust is largely basalt, which is heavier than granite and inclined to sink...
...Mikail M. Borodin, editor of the Moscow Daily News, in English as thick as borsch: And there are people who would start a world conflagration . . . in order that it be warm...
...main enclosure, 185 ft. long by 115 ft. wide, has thick walls up to 40-ft. high built of basalt columns laid crosswise, rather like the logs of a log cabin. Huge rough steps lead to a courtyard. Inside is another wall, and inside that a stone-roofed vault. The man-made islets are separated by shallow canals, some of them choked with tumbled blocks. The citadel itself is in fair condition, though so overgrown with jungle that few details are visible...
...keep Spain out of the war ("Many people thought that I had gone to Spain to appease"). Arriving soon after the collapse of France, he played a hand at first "with nothing higher in it than a five of clubs." German prestige was boundless; German spies and informers were thick underfoot. A "very sinister" Turk named Lazar, attached to the German Embassy although he was a Jew, controlled the Spanish press. Seated before signed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini, Dictator Franco received the British envoy with polite disdain. "Why don't you end the war now?" Franco asked...