Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special cooling system in the scrotum which keeps it at 2 to 15° below normal body temperature. Experimenters have caused temporary sterility in dogs, rabbits, cats and bulls by artificially heating their testes; Australian sheep breeders recently reported that a sterile breed of rams became fertile when a thick growth of wool on their testicles was sheared...
Ribbons of Flesh. A few others got as far as the low, 3-ft.-thick band of barbed wire beside the electric fence before they were shot or died of burns. So awful was their agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
...Manila Harbor, the Japs aboard Fort Drum, the 335-foot "concrete battleship" built on the rocks of El Fraile Island, refused to surrender. Warships knocked the twin-gunned turrets out of action, but bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went...
Shades of horror--a week from today we shall be right in the thick of mid terms. The question of who's going to win this everlasting battle between the faculty and the "Captains of Industry" has already been decided. Oh well, a Purser in the Merchant Marine...
...tricks he had worked hard to teach it. Some of Patton's men were fighting in Kassel, the important road-junction point of central Germany. They were less than 180 miles from Berlin. Patton had already come that many miles, in less than seven weeks-through thick fighting and across the Rhine. His 4th Armored Division was busily engaged in its specialty: spearheading a typical Patton flanking movement. One of its miles-long columns was only 152 miles from Berlin...