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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remote, rustic greenery of western Massachusetts lives a tall, slender, sophisticated man who spends his quiet days at a drawing board designing yachts. William G. Anderson 19 sketches in his South Natick hilltop home, which is decorated by wooden half-ship models an embroidered oriental rug, and a thick red leatherbound photo album, which records the almost two decades he spent entertaining foreign heads of state, prominent intellectuals and businessmen who wanted to see Harvard...

Author: By Meredith E. Greene, | Title: Concierge of Harvard Yard | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

Krugale attributes the high quality of his product to the fact it is made from scratch every day without preservatives. Due to special ingredients and a secret freezing process, Steve's ice cream is rich and thick enough to withstand the mix-in process, he says...

Author: By Helen Lee, | Title: Steve's Big At Colleges Across East | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State off Siege | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

...down on Hampstead Heath, the endless particularations (never meant to be exhibited as final pictures) of small divisions of time, no two of which were the same. And hence, above all, the quality of Constable's mature work that seems so puzzlingly modern, a prediction of impressionism: the thick paint. By his late years he was piling it on with a palette knife in higher and higher tones, all the way up to pure flake white, in an effort to render the broken luminosity he saw in nature. There are moments when one feels the subject needs disinterring from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wordsworth of Landscape | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

Late last April the Crimson was in the thick of the Ivy League title chase when the Tigers knocked them out with a 10-6 decision...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Laxmen's Modest Streak Ends In 13-9 Defeat at Princeton | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

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