Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible paper" is the expensive, super-thin paper on which Bibles and dictionaries are printed. This month, to reduce paper consumption, the bawdy magazine Esquire began printing some of its risque cartoons on "Bible paper...
...enough; the wet mix must be compacted from the bottom. This is done with the well-named "sheep's-foot" roller (see cut), whose hundreds of small steel projections pound down into the mixture. Once tamped hard, the surface is graded smooth, then protected against scuffing by a thin bituminous top coat...
Background for Broadway. Dapper Dan Walker became a Broadway columnist by accident. Georgia-born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming...
British and Indian troops were in slow, steady retreat last week before the jujitsu jabs of the Japs, who infiltrated their positions and threatened to cut their thin communication line. The British would probably be lucky if they could withdraw intact to India before the imminent season of monsoon, malaria...
...Peter J. Steincrohn of Hartford, Conn, wrote You Don't Have to Exercise to prove that exercise after 40 is definitely harmful; his rule for fitness from then on is to stay thin and lazy. His latest book, Heart Disease Is Curable (Doubleday, Doran; $1.98), out last week, goes on to show what avoidance of exercise can do for heart disease...