Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Manhattan and smoky Queens lies a thin strip of grey land with grey buildings in the middle of the sludgy grey waters of the East River. It used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...
Higher than physical comfort the scholar holds adequate time for research. To classroom duties which distract him at every university, Harvard adds tutorial work. Tugged three ways at once, the scholar finds himself spread thin. President Conant would ease the classroom strain...
That such a goal must be distant even for rich Harvard, President Conant admits. But as first steps toward it he would combine present funds, make one fat $1,200 fellowship out of four thin $300 scholarships, award it for two or three years instead of one. As an experiment, he would like to set up half a dozen $1,000 freshman scholarships in a section...
...Champs Elysées which she still owns. Singing remains Walska's passion but the Philadelphia audience was hard put to understand why last week. She cannot get along without her notes. Each song sounds just like the last. What tone she has is thin and warbly. Yet with the scantiest encouragement she comes back beaming to teeter through an encore. The Philadelphia Record said: "Madame Walska's art is that of a little child. She should be seen and not heard...