Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually on the couch during the White House talks, but sitting close by in the oval study was generally to be found last week a stocky, square-shouldered man of 46. Grey streaks his thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally...
...average European unfolding his thin morning paper last week found the U. S. an exciting welter. What was going , on at those conferences in the White House? Was it the peasants of Idaho, Iowa or Ohio that were in armed revolt? What was the meaning of "controlled inflation?" Could the U. S. Government control it better than the French or Ger- man Governments had done? All these things occurring 4,000 mi. away were of vital interest to Europe. Near at hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...
...book with bitter remarks about the present impossibility of landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture in the distant mountains, carry a thin stream of water some 30 ft. under the baking sand. These conduits, bored through the clay subsoil by no one knows whom, have to be cleared periodically and for this have manholes 50 ft. apart. Seabrook went down one of these fougaras and crawled painfully a quarter-mile, was glad...
Last week President Roosevelt moved to carry out this campaign pledge when he worked Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (pronounced Burly), a short, thin, whispery professor of corporation law, into the R. F. C. as railroad credit manager. As special assistant to the R. F. C. board. Professor Berle will see that carriers get no more cash than they can reasonably be expected to repay. His standard of credit rating is expected to be a road's ability to write down its bonded debt as a means of reducing interest charges. Until the carriers' capital structures have been deflated...
...have been made in the fire-fighting system, and a system of fire doors has not been worked out. The only possible exit from the building outside of the narrow, poorly-lit, stairways, is through the make-shift, self-operated rope fire escape in each room, suspended from a thin iron hook. There is only one rope in every room, whether single or double. In the event that the other dormitories of the University are filled next year, it is possible that the University will attempt to utilize Shepherd Hall as a residence for dropped Freshmen again...