Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians began to discuss openly such things as: "Have you heard that things are going badly in the North? That there have been 70,000 dead and wounded-so many casualties that the wounded overflow from Leningrad to Moscow? Have you heard that the soldiers have no gloves and thin shoes-though the Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place where our men were supposed to be having their...
...afield than the suburbs. If they do, they may run spang into tall, grim-mouthed Edward Ellis, as happens when Gangster Marco (Harold Huber) goes a-rusticating. But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love...
...Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...
Plywood is made by putting a big log into a peeling machine, which strips off the thin wood sheets like wrapping paper from a roll. When the sheets are cut to size, the sandwiches are made in presses which deliver squeezes up to 200 Ib. per sq. in. The San Francisco World's Fair, which accounted for 10,000,000 sq. ft. of fir plywood, used plywood 29 layers thick for parts of its Colonnade of States...
Billy Draws a Horse (by Lesley Storm; produced by Lee Shubert & William A. Brady) is a wee mite of an English comedy, cheerily piping in its thin little treble, bravely kicking its little matchstick legs. Deft, witty Comedienne Grace George does all she can to build it up, but the little fellow needs milk & eggs, a good tonic and lots of fresh country...