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Word: thin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parking space for the congregation's cars. "It is immoral and unethical to build a structure without providing for the traffic it will attract," Wright told the church board. "You don't want an immoral church, do you?" They did not. Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully air-conditioned, summer & winter. Instead of a steeple it will have pillars of light-formed by interweaving floodlights from a copper crown on the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Something New in Churches | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam Session | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Then became apparent the weak point in Italy's naval policy. That country went in for super-fast battleships with thin skins, to raid and run, never stand and fight. And now Sir Andrew caught these greyhounds in kennel. As he plowed with his whole force after dark into the Gulf of Taranto, his advance scouts in the Strait of Otranto caught a convoy going to Porto Edda,* Albania, with supplies. They sank one ship outright, fired and probably sank two others, damaged one of the two escorting destroyers, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: R.N. at Taranto | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...question leaped into his mind: "What is the horsepower, what is the amount of force involved?" To find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected by the strand which runs through a small hole in the agar. Protoplasmic streaming from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pulse of Protoplasm | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican newsmen as saying: "American Export Airlines has the sympathy and backing of the U. S. Department of State . . . [which] will oppose any effort of Pan American to compete with TACA, now an American company." Costa Rican newspapers began beating drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pan Am v. Am Ex | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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