Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dislike intensely the way I look," said Columnist Dorothy Thompson to an interviewer. "I cannot bear it! But I haven't the character to get thin. Getting thin is a life in itself. I can't integrate it with my life...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...
High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...