Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milk by degrees until a thick smooth batter is formed. Beat well for ten minutes, then add remainder of milk, cover, and let it stand for at least one hour in refrigerator. About half-an-hour before beef is due to be done take deep dish, put in a thin layer of dripping taken from meat tin, and while dish and dripping are getting thoroughly hot in oven beat up batter well again. Take dish and dripping from oven and pour in batter, place in hot oven and bake for about half-an-hour, or till browned and properly...
...which Mrs. Gillies is head, was Private Fliers Association Counsel Hav en B. Page (father of three). Mr. Page brandished five obstetricians' opinions on the flying competence of pregnant women.One physician maintained that women are completely capable during 90% of their pregnancy, successfully drive cars, sail boats, etc. Thin, emaciated women, vowed another expert, would be much better pilots if they were four months pregnant. Said he, it makes them feel better ; the attitude of "we males" is largely superstition...
Against the Summa and Muolaa sectors the Russians sent company after company of their best troops. Each wave advanced as far as it could, then when its ranks began to thin a fresh company came up from behind to join it. Then another and another and another. These were just the tactics the British had used in the Somme, and, as had the Germans in 1916, the Finns were forced to fall back. Fighting fiercely with their puukos (hunting knives), they sold their lives and their soil dearly...
Last week in Manhattan hog-wild Tennessee Eastman gave a coming-out party for its latest creation: Tenite II-a slightly refined Tenite I extruded in long, thin, narrow strips and strings. On display were Tennessee Eastman's debutantes: plastic chairs, tables, love seats, lazy boys of Tenite II for use in sun rooms, on verandas and lawns. Woven in strips or strings on rattan frames, the plastic furniture is (Eastman boast) impervious to sun, rain, fading. It is made by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. out of strips and strings extruded by Detroit Macoid Corp. from Tennessee Eastman...
With the spies came the bombs, sprayed by wave after wave of Soviet planes. In the clear cold air they flew high, trailing a thin line of vapor from their exhausts, dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north...