Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Szell is a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe and a fervent Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...
Louis Children's Hospital. Paul is a cheerful little Negro boy with an I.Q. of 107 and a physical age of 70. His skin is wrinkled, he is nearly bald. Thick veins snake across his temples and the backs of his hands. His fingernails are dry and broken...
There are two Polish Women's armies to day: one in Poland, the underground army of nameless soldiers who know they are fighting a good fight. Another, the Pestkas, the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, who had gone through "thick & thin" with the Polish Army in Poland, in Russia, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Great Britain. They had fought not only against the enemy, but also against the epidemics which broke out among the Polish evacuees from Soviet Russia. Many of them died in this fight...
Barrier Breaching. In Bessarabia last week the air was thick with the aroma of apple blossoms and Marshal Ivan Konev was there to enjoy it. Even more he could enjoy the knowledge that his was the major credit for breaking through one compartment after another of the Ger man defenses...
...paper napkin is .003 inches thick and such napkins are piled up, starting with one, then adding two, then adding four and doubling the new batch 32 times in all, will the pile finally be one foot high? Or will it be as high as the ceiling? Or will it be as high as the Empire State Building...