Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promising start, and some of it is interesting reading, but it must be more than interesting and promising to become a successful and permanent institution. But follow it carefully. A clever showman and an able advertising manager could work wonders over night, and it may come off the presses thick with class any month...
...Republicans, now majority members for the first time in 14 years, were in a businesslike mood. In their own words they wanted to "get things done, go home and give the people a breather." They were acutely aware that Americans find it hard to breathe in a thick political atmosphere. This session, majority leaders fervently hoped, would finish its work by July...
...separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...
Some old fool up here has the same idea, and may succeed in shortening our grouse season by two weeks, next legislature. . . . We could have got our limit many times over. Hurricane blowdown full of them. So thick that cats, owls, fox, etc., are getting many more than hunters. We've seen eight in one tree this season, never went out a day without flushing at least 20 in short time. No apples this year, consequently all birds in thick woods, feeding on thornapples, hornbeam buds, and ground seeds...
Phil Murray stated the theme in his thick-carpeted, 15th-floor office, seated behind his glistening walnut desk. (Big Labor's offices are very like Big Business': the United Steelworkers of America have almost a million members.) Said Murray, the C.I.O. must apply the rule of reason to its demands. He devoutly hoped for a peaceful outcome next month...