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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their middles and are moving fast, bushy-tailed squirrels are laying in extra supplies of acorns, bark on trees is extra thick. Onions are sporting thick skins, and everyone knows: "Onion skins very tough, winter's going to be very rough." Both the Almanac and the woolly bears, by the way, were right on in their predictions that last winter would be a brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Not-So-Hot News Flash | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...game's outcome had favored Harvard, the Crimson would be in the thick of the Ivy race, but in less than a minute, the match had turned sour...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Takes a Licking From Tigers As Princeton Booters Roar to 4-1 Win | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Quicker than you can say "Robert L. Isom," Ivy League football became as thick as a Quincy House tapioca Saturday, as Yale, Brown and Dartmouth all posted wins...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Elis and Big Green Cruise Into Lead | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...crisp pace of the game slowed somewhat in the second stanza as the players' legs grew heavy with tramping through the soft, thick...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Muddy Field and Skilled Bruin Booters Combine to Bring Down J.V.s' 2-0 | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

...forced to look through stone." Removing these shadowed lenses allows light to enter the eye but creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spectacle Within the Eye | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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