Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed last week but two ways for any large amount of munitions to reach Chinese troops: from Russia, over the interminable caravan routes of Outer Mongolia, or from French Indo-China over the railroad from Hanoï to Yünnan in Yünnan Province. These would be thin trickles. China's only really efficient arsenal was at Mukden, has been in Japanese hands since 1931. Total output of other arsenals in China can provide about 800,000 rounds of rifle ammunition daily (about half a round per soldier), a few field pieces, machine guns and trench mortars...
...scandalous scenes of pre-War continental society than were bored by its ponderous length that the book soared into the best-selling class. Last week a sizable audience was waiting with shocking hopefulness for the sequel, Europa In Limbo. But purple passages in the latest Briffault were thin and few. An earnest, disillusioned, clumsily Voltairian novel, its lean streaks of perception were buried in thick stretches of unmuscled...
...tough question of the atomic architecture inside the molecule has yielded somewhat to the discovery that it must conform to mathematical limitations grouped under "stoichiometrical law." Stanley's tobacco mosaic virus, for example, was found to be not a long, thin chain but roughly egg-shaped...
...fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker was as much as three minutes behind the floor. When the closing bell bonged that day 385 stocks had touched bottom for 1937, and all three Dow-Jones...
...Thin Ice (20th Century-Fox). Second picture (and a great improvement over One in a Million) to show cinemagoers Sonja Henie's glittering skill on skates...