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Word: thin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant Italian morning, with pale sunlight shimmering through a thin mist. Poppies bloomed in the wheat, crickets chirped in the weeds and skylarks sang overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Nightmare's End | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...year-old U.S. engineering student discovered his dream man. The student was Lewis Mumford. His dream man was Sir Patrick Geddes, a thin, agile Scot with a beard like the gorse on his native moors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balancing Act | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...step right up, ladeez and gentlemen, for the greatest show on earth. See the thin man, the fat lady, the India rubber man, Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy, and Gargantua, who, when last week was confronted by three Harvard men said, "I prefer peanuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCUSGOER | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

...character's name was "Lil Thin Dyme" or "Doleful Dogie," Sample line: "Ole Taxes Drainger, he done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires) on three women far gone with breast cancer. The hormone improved all three cancer patients. One bedridden woman with a cancer that had spread to her bones was able to get up out of bed, now plays ping-pong every day. There is some recalcification of the thin spots in her bones. She still harbors cancer cells, but healthy fibrous tissue is growing among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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