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Word: thin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general excitement one stalwart oarsman forget himself and put a large and capable foot through the paper-thin bottom of the shell. Everyone was disturbed, but there were lots of other shells. So they got in another and rowed off. Coming upstream, the little cox didn't see a cake of ice, and suddenly the boat was split from bow to stern, and sank unceremoniously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aw, Who Cares? Shells Only Cost $1000 Apiece, Anyway | 3/16/1943 | See Source »

...home. To a man of his courage, Dutch stubbornness, and physical optimism this was not a matter of awful concern. He has never minded reaching a low point the year before an election. But on the day of his anniversary came strong strictures from a longtime thick-&-thin Roosevelt supporter, strictures to make even an optimist look to his political fences. Said the New Deal New York Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anniversary | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...oboist's technique begins long before he puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of the Reeds | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

...They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/3/1943 | See Source »

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