Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the U. S. is a big man, huge-shouldered and long-armed, with sausage-size fingers on his freckled, hairy hands. His greying hair is thin, little hollows dwell on his massive temples, brown shadows sit under his deep, narrow-set eyes, and two big seams hook down from his clear-cut nose to make grim parentheses around his mouth...
...thin, grave man who drinks no spirits, eats no meat. Sir Stafford is professionally a brilliant radical lawyer, privately "Red Squire" of the Cotswolds. He was the Labor Party's best mouthpiece until they expelled him in 1939 because he wanted to form a Labor Front. At that time the London Daily Express said that by his expulsion the Party was "blowing its brains out." In Russia, Sir Stafford will have done the Empire yeoman service if he can get what he hopes to get: 1) a trade agreement; 2) a military alliance-both with something more than milk...
...seen Old Nick at the Italian violinist's side as he fiddled like the very devil himself. No one before him, and few after, could do what he did with a bow - extra long, for his abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left-hand pizzicato (plucked note), the double harmonic...
...where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break with overcast stitches. Clamps cut off the supply of blood during the stitching. Then the clamps are removed and in ten to 15 seconds, the warm blood melts the sugar and circulation proceeds...
...produced is that airplanes and their engines are still largely hand-built, precision jobs. Last week an airplane designed for mass production with a minimum of handwork was flown in California. It was Timm Aircraft Corp.'s blue-&-gold plastic plane-with wings and fuselage pressure-molded from thin spruce plywood and liquid plastic (like the bakelite of radio panels), then baked in an oven. Test Pilot Vance Breese (who has designed and produced another plastic model) put Timm's plane through its paces, convinced at least one Army observer (Colonel Joseph L. Stromme) that "this may mark...