Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...
...keep up with the train, which then seemed to be racing with a butterfly. .. . . Once the [train] stopped in the open fields and Laura saw the engineer ... go out and pick some specially fine goldenrod. . . . Sometimes like a fuzzy caterpillar looking in the cotton was a winding line of thick green willows and cypresses, and when the train crossed this green, running on a loud iron bridge, down its center like a golden mark on the caterpillar's back would be a bayou...
After a warming lunch (thick tenderloin steaks) and acceptance of a medal from Chicago's Mayor Kelly,* the President rode in an open car, its safety glass raised to full height, to Soldier Field. There, as his car edged around the arena, he returned beaming smiles for the cheers. But as he alighted at the north end of the amphitheater, somebody threw a tomato at the President of the U.S. If Harry Truman noticed it as it squashed on the cinder track he gave no sign...
Someone once compared Critic John Forster to a pencil stub-"short, thick, and full of lead." In writing his classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
Most underwriting, cashing in on low interest rates and a sellers' market, was in refinancing ($4.6 billion, a record). But new-money issues, nearly zero in wartime, when the Government paid the freight, started popping forth as soon as peace came to Europe, were blossoming thick & fast going into 1946. As the pastures grew green again in private financing, the volume of U.S. long-term Government issues faded off from a 1944 high of $52.4 to $47.3 billion...