Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...
...defeat may even have been decisive, for in the far-flung adventures of Nippon, where empires are won by shoestring forces and strength is spread perilously thin, there is no room for crushing defeats. It was not a naval battle on the scale of Jutland; but it might in the end prove to have had a farther-reaching effect...
...University has been greatly surprised at the prospect of filling the Houses this summer. Back in the hectic days which followed Pearl Harbor the authorities expected a rapid dash to the colors which would thin student ranks and make it impossible for the University to make ends meet. The Dean's Office, therefore, decided to allow students not attending Summer School to keep their, furniture in their rooms by the simple if extravagant expedient of paying rent through the summer months. This it was thought would ease a difficult budget situation...
Raymond Massey is wasted in a thin role as head villain and Mammy Hattie McDaniel (also wasted) is dragged in by the car with the rest of the romantic accoutrements identified in Hollywood with the Old South...
Eric Larrabee '43 said of Professor Cons: "I thin everyone who has taken his courses will realize how hells, in a very literal sense, irreplaceable. They were completely his courses because everything in them meant a definite something...