Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, too, Professor Hillyer's decision to give up the monthly lectures must be interpreted in a similar light. Indeed, the monthly lectures were the single thin thread of organization in the whole course, and many students thought the addresses, though necessarily sketchy the best part of English A. Now all that remains is a glorified prep school course, whose bloom is not always apparent...
...building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product is a laminated plastic, pressed innumerable sheets of thin Presdwood. An addition to the Laurel, Miss, plant to turn out this plastic will be ready early next year...
...ordinary patients, Drs. Stewart, Hoffman & Ghiselin operate the moving picture camera at a standard speed of 16 frames a second, or 32 frames for the cycle. For unusually thick patients, through whom x-rays do not penetrate easily, the operators slow the camera twelve or eight frames a second. Thin people can stand 24 frames a second. The four chambers of their hearts then can be seen contracting on the projection screen...
Carole Lombard, whom we once thought was through, rose to tempestuous heights to steal the show from the suave William Powell in the most laughable comedy since "The Thin Man." Put "My Man Godfrey," now being held over for a second week at Keiths on your must list...
...deeds which made Al Smith choose between Washington and Moscow last week? Surely not the N.R.A., which was not only drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce and big business, but by any standard of judgement must be pronounced Fascist rather than Communist. The Republicans are walking on equally thin ice when they attack the the A.A.A. For if what Governor Landon is promising is not an A.A.A., it is a reasonably exact facsimile. The "class hatred" bogey has been used with spirit, but it was the Republican Theodore Roosevelt who started the march and coined the phrase, "malefactors...