Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin-faced, bookish Oxford graduate of 23, working in South Africa under the great liberal imperialist Lord Milner. he had absorbed Milner's vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League...
...that these clumps were a grainy, cokelike mass. It was just an assumption, because no ordinary microscope could penetrate the clumps. In the Eastman laboratories, Researcher C. E. Hall made electron pictures magnifying the silver islands 25,000 times. Then it was seen that they were composed of tangled, thin strands of silver, some of them only a few atoms thick. "The developed grains," said Dr. Mees. "resemble masses of seaweed rather than coke...
...table in Manhattan's noisy Stork Club one night last week sat a tall, thin, aging man and his wife. A society photographer asked the couple whether they minded having their picture taken. "Not at all," said the thin man. "But it's the last picture you'll take, because tomorrow I'm going away for a long time...
...picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye, now somewhat more mature than Miss Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable the slimmer wriggle. The rest of the activity centres around two Irish song publishers, Calhoun and Harrigan (fat Jack Oakie and thin John Payne), who contribute respectively comic and romantic relief. When Author Pamela Harris' plot pushes them into the A. E. F., the time arrives for America, I Love You, Goodbye Broadway, Hello France...
...charcoal box and kept it in his drawing room . . . without its having caused any smell. . . . Perhaps his guests were too polite to say anything, or perhaps they just took smells for granted in the house of a professor of pharmacology. . . . Do you think the experts would consider putting thin slabs of charcoal . . . along the roof of the tube (and other) shelters...