Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consolidation, he said, is like water that freezes on top; there are large stretches where one can walk over in safety because the ice is thick and strong. There are parts where one can walk, but hear the threatening sound of cracking, and there are sections where only a thin skin of ice is forming, and over the deepest spots there are still open cracks. But the process of freezing continues, consolidation is progressing...
...watched Wellesley go home and the knots of people in the Square's liquor marts thin out as funds dwindled and students had only a few days left to supply for. "We serve them all year, and they walk out on us at Christmas," the man behind the counter observed half-facetiously, half-sardonically...
...Thin Man. In Manhattan, slim Lav Mitch, befuddled from a late party, lay down in the middle of a subway track, was awakened uninjured by policemen after at least one train had passed over...
Newest theory: blame radioactivity. Many rocks are slightly radioactive, shooting thin trickles of gamma rays through themselves and their surrounding formations. When continued long enough (say, a million years), the cumulative effect is considerable...
More Industry Than Skill. In the rich field of literary biography, Americans had a thin year. In Leo Tolstoy, Columbia Professor Ernest J. Simmons made use of much new material, and his book seemed likely to become a standard text. Matthew Josephson's Stendhal was the most thorough work in English on the French novelist, but its qualities arose more out of industriousness than skill...