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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem is that there simply aren't enough good writers to fill up thick magazines (a fact of which I am unconvinced, having read much excellent unpublished material), then editors should include more work by the writers that they have discovered. Mr. Mee's play, for example, is part of a trilogy, and I would have been delighted to have the chance to read the other two plays...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Identity | 10/18/1960 | See Source »

...office as a servant of the organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so." All across the big semicircle, delegates, white, black and brown, rose in a standing ovation. In their midst, Nikita Khrushchev derisively pounded his thick fists on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The New Boys | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...chromium atoms off the energy shelf and releasing a vast amount of red light, all of whose waves are in step and all of which move parallel .to the sides of the rod. A few of those waves escape through the silver of one mirror, which is not quite thick enough to be totally opaque, and form the pencil beam of red maser light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fantastic Red Spot | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...himself and his union into a strike neither really wanted. Snapped G.E.'s Moore to Carey at one of the last sessions: "You think there is something else coming. Well, there isn't now, next week, next month, or any other time. Now get that through your thick head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strike at G.E. | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...this is the case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full of wing-wracking CAT. The troubled air is usually only a few thousand feet thick, and it slopes upward, its high end toward a slow-moving air mass that is being jostled by the speedy jet stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Predicting CAT's Claws | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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