Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper west side of Manhattan, an area thick with university buildings and theological seminaries, is dominated by two great churches-the towering Rockefeller-built Riverside Church and the huge, unfinished Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Last week each made news...
...windows, partly covered by ripped shades, were grimy with soot. The plaster on the walls and ceiling was cracked. The room was cold; the 39 men and one stout, grandmotherly woman kept on their coats as they sat down in rickety, straight-back chairs. A mild man with thick glasses tacked a small piece of paper on the outside of the door. On it was printed in pale red pencil: "I.W.W. Convention Hall...
...early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads, labor legislation and farm relief, he was speaking for thousands of poor, proud, stubborn, toiling men. They elected him governor thrice, sent him to the U.S. Senate for four terms as an insurgent Republican...
...secret chamber General Unjebanenjebet slept on. A new war raged in Africa. Professor Montet, his funds cut off by the German invaders, returned to defeated France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
...both stricken cities a few Japanese under shelter survived the heat and blast, only to die later from the invisible gamma rays. Striking through thick concrete, the rays disintegrated their blood cells, allowing raging infections to spread through their bodies (TIME...