Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued that that race is best which has evolved farthest from an apelike ancestor, some curious champions appear. The narrow, prominent noses of Armenians are least like the broad, flat noses of apes. Negroes have the thickest, therefore the most "human" lips as contrasted with the thin lips of apes. Apes are hairy; Mongols have the least hair. Apes have small brains; Eskimos have big ones...
...Housman, 77, famed English poet; in Cambridge, England. Known to his University as a typical don. prim, silent, conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison of sentimentality...
...Hearstpapers last week engaged Edward to his second cousin, thin-lipped Princess Alexandrine-Louise, 21, niece of Denmark's King Christian X. Said Alexandrine's father: "Pure nonsense...
...Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard...
...thin, wiry lowan of 49, U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker points with pride to the Public Forums, modeled after the oldtime New England town meeting, he ran three years ago as Des Moines' Superintendent of Schools. Adult education is Commissioner Studebaker's strongest interest, and he believes that public discussion is the foundation of any adult program. Last week in a little book called Plain Talk,* he wistfully told what he would do if the U. S. Government were to allot him $70,000,000 for experimental purposes. He would train 10,000 forum leaders...