Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wind and sun are the only efficacious dispellers of fog. But to dissipate thin shallow fogs such as rise over a harbor the warm morning after a still, clear night, Professor McAdie suggests that fireboats squirt their streams at the mist. "Electrified spray from these mighty nozzles would not only wash a channel through the fog, but cause the fog droplets to coalesce and agglomerate and drop as a drizzling rain. The squirting would not be very expensive...
...last week Linda Gaddy Bilbo, tall, thin, grey-haired wife of the stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
Although French officials gave some thin excuse about "labor" contracts in refusing entrance to the happy little family of "nice girls", there is little doubt but that the real reason is connected with an episode on ship board when the "girls" and "Mother Tex" took off, and put on a spectacle of the Garden of Eden, after the Fall, for the anatomical edification of American plutocrats...
...Princeton we are under a double handicap--a dissyllabic name and a thin, closed vowel (i) with which to start. Consequently, we cannot rival either the quick bark of "Yale!" or the slow sonority of "Harvard!" From the standpoint of effective vocalization "Prince-ton!" is what our British cousins would call a fair washout. What to do about...
Nasa was the bastardette of an educated Indian who was swept off his moccasins by the wife of a successful rancher. She had fed herself to the teeth on her husband's thin-lipped parochial ambition. The Indian, being noble, shot himself next day. Nasa was born and grew up thinking little about her parentage, feeling much about herself. Her legal father prospered in railroads, enjoyed giving her every advantage. But even as a schoolgirl Nasa had a tendency to scratch and bite, see red instead of rosy. When she married, too young, it was the wrong...