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Word: thin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME, Dec.11...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Mangrove thickets grew like tangled hair on the thin arm of land which embraced Biscayne Bay. Along came Realtors Carl Fisher and John Collins, shaved the mangroves off, filled the swamps with bay bottom and sand, and turned the arm into Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: On the Beach | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...gangrene were very rare. Normally, even in arm or leg wounds which had been disinfected and bandaged, they could expect more than ten cases of gangrene per 1,000. But only a score of the wounded soldiers had become infected. And none of them had been given antiseptics; only thin gauze drains separated the plaster casts from their lacerated flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastered Wounds | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Marriage. At 47 William Powell has behind him two wives, Actress Eileen Wilson (divorced), Actress Carole Lombard (now Mrs. Gable). Dark, dapper, Thin Man Powell has also been publicized as grieving for the late and glamorous Jean Harlow. Last week William Powell's last act before eloping with Wife No. 3 was to call up Jean Harlow's mother, let her in on the secret. She wished him happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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