Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. James M. Doran, 57, onetime U.S. Commissioner of Prohibition (1927-30); in Washington. Thin, bespectacled, with puckish ears, he faintly resembled the cartoon personifications of Prohibition. His wife, Roxana, a W.C.T.U. member, attracted attention in 1930 with a recipe book of "Prohibition Punches," whose contributors numbered the wives of many high Washingtonians. One of Mrs. Doran's offerings was a mint julep without liquor. With the end of Prohibition, Doran became head of the Distilled Spirits Institute, resigned...
...middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum are played in pitches and rhythms to match the language...
...flyer bails out at 35,000 to 40,000 feet and pulls his rip cord at once, he will probably suffocate in the thin-aired substratosphere during the first of the 24 minutes it takes him to float to earth. But if he holds his breath for 30 seconds and plummets a while before opening his parachute, he will retain consciousness...
...busy, on the Siberian frontier (see p. 24), in the Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China...
...ordinary washing this neutralization does not occur, and the narcosis amounts virtually to death. The very thin film of soap over each bacterium is thus far more effective in germicidal action than carbolic acid, which must consume the bacteria in order to kill them...