Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Empire and world interest focused last week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious "intervener" in the divorce case of Mrs. Simpson. It was he who alone seized and exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with...
...suburban French Revolution by the time Premier Blum's investigators reached Clichy. The police, fearing a rush by armed workmen into the Olympia and a massacre inside, were now trying to evacuate the 300 French Social Party members and pipe them safely out of the arrondissement through thin police lines stretching through the crowd of 10,000. The crowd grew so ugly that gendarmes decided to clear the pavement outside Clichy Town Hall, and into it angry Communists retreated, hurling brickbats as they withdrew...
...Academy prizes, unfamiliar to Easterners was the winner of one of the two highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...
When the leatherized skin tore, as occasionally happens, Dr. Bettman resorted to isografts. These are razor thin strips of skin (taken from a donor whose blood matches the patient's) laid over the raw surfaces. Such isografts soon disintegrate but temporarily they act as a natural dressing and, when supplemented by a preparation called "oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization...
Frozen in by a thin sheet of ice which extended down the river only as far as the Lars Anderson Bridge, Varsity crewmen yesterday were unable to use a new shell which had just arrived from Seattle, Washington, the gift of Chandler Hovey, whose son is a member of the sophomore class. The boat was built during the last month by George Pocock, reputedly the best shell builder in the United States, at a cost...