Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Mellon faded into senility and Andy and R.B. ran the show. Andy-shy, diffident, frail, and pale-eyed, fingering his thin cigars; R.B.-hearty, affable, horsy, married to Jennie King, a lively lady who wore a red wig-two brothers quite unlike in most respects but exactly alike in their acquisitiveness and the accuracy of their financial calculations...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
...report by Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 that the Council is on "thin ice" financially, with suggestion that money activities of the many Council committees be centralized through one business manager, as an economy move...
...donor's blood is put, to serve as a priming charge. The veins returning blood to the subject's heart are closed by clamps, and the blood from these veins is pumped into the machine. Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum. It absorbs oxygen, which is pumped into the drum, and gives off carbon dioxide, which is withdrawn. Then the refreshed blood is pumped back into the body through an artery. The machine is governed at every step by electrical controls...
Among the exhibits, however, there were still a few pieces to startle conservatives. Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...