Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Ryan was just getting warmed up when questions from the audience began to fly thick & fast: "Why is the Catholic Bible different from the Protestant Bible? Why don't Catholics read the Bible? Why did the Catholic Church chain the Bible in the Middle Ages?" Betty Ryan kept her poise and sense of humor, had her answers pat. Said she, stepping down after 20 minutes: "North Carolina was never like this...
...columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together again in two-column pages instead of three. Each page of the V-Mail Edition contains about half as many words as a regular TIME page, so each copy runs between 60 and 70 pages of thick photographic paper printed on one side only. The result is the bulkiest of all our 20 editions - as thick-as a ham sandwich...
...after a late lunch, Mihai sent for Antonescu. The dictator, following his practice of keeping the King waiting, arrived an hour late. He left his bullet-proof automobile, with glass an inch thick, a gift from Hitler, in the courtyard. Several other automobiles loaded with armed bodyguards parked behind...
...Lion is thick-maned Arturo Ales-sandri, 76, Chile's most formidable orator,* and its President from 1920 to 1925 and from 1932 to 1938. Fortnight ago he was elected Senator from Talca...
...brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems on a slide rule; 2) Launcelot McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who speaks thick Brooklynese; 3) Gus the Ghost, an ectoplasmic intellectual who ghostwrites O'Malley's autobiography when O'Malley runs for Congress. There is also a talking dog, Gorgon ("Didn't know I could do it. ... Never tried it before, I guess...