Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bereaved mother, soon to become a mother again. Physicians attended her, but still she was seen with her mother and sister going about her robbed house, managing, helping, hoping. At Hopewell, where the Press kept constant contact with the State police, new factual developments were only a thin trickle amid the welter of rumor, false report and fantasy which piled up from...
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in the preface, summarizes: "The distinguishing aesthetic principles of the International Style as laid down by the authors are three: emphasis upon volume--space enclosed by thin planes or surfaces as opposed to the suggestion of mass and solidity; regularity as opposed to symmetry or other kinds of obvious balance; and, lastly, dependence upon the intrinsic elegance of materials, technical perfection, and fine proportions, as opposed to applied ornament...
Bertha and Elena de Hellebranth are not twins. One is 29, the other 30. "But," insists Sister Bertha, "we have twin instincts. Life has treated us alike. I am a little too fat, and Elena is maybe a little too thin, but all otherwise we are the same...
With the world skating on the thin ice of international finance as it has recently, however, everything threatens to be possible. Should Germany and Central Europe fail to maintain their credit and admit collapse, Hitler might well ride the wave to victory. For that which destroyed the old order would set him in its place...
Although ten Freshmen eights were planning to christen their boats yesterday, and four University and four 150 pound crews were scheduled to go out on the river, the weather perversely turned cold and a thin sheet of ice was formed, prohibiting navigation to the fragile craft...