Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney-General Murphy's pep meetings for U. S. District Attorneys (see p. 16) and the National Parole Conference were occasions in Washington last week calling for speeches by a man whose thin, shrill voice is seldom heard outside the House of Representatives, though there it commands respect: Representative Hatton Walker Sumners of Dallas, Tex., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...prize-winner, "The End of It," by Cavish Lewis, is talented and cleanly written, but runs a little thin toward the end. I found myself not caring very much whether the wanderer Morris with the deep-down eyes, who stood for integrity and adventure to the grocer's daughter, did or did not take advantage of her admiration to seduce her in his hall bed-room...
...policy of the coaches has been to spread the coaching as thin as effectiveness will permit. A change in the system would not increase our effectiveness. The report states "Players who never had . . . any instruction will, with one or two afternoons in these expert hands, learn more than they ever believed to exist in these sports...
...under a shade tree and the ascetic defendants stood in the sun, dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even quarrels." But the 458 female Nazareth Baptists were found guilty of manslaughter. Punishment was spread thin over the entire group. Sentence: for eleven leaders, six months in jail; for the others, three months with sentence suspended after a promise to behave...
...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...