Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League and the French underground; and Trusteeships-Dr. Victor Hoo, witty Washington-born Chinese...
Before the dust had settled from last week's explosion at the Sun, "Dimmy" Dimitman sent a thin-lipped memo to his editors. Excerpts: "Unduly large portions of our spot-news space have been devoted to subjects featured on the editorial page. > . . I think it should be our policy to gain readers before we concentrate on educating and reforming them. We are now preaching sermons to a congregation which believes them exactly...
Magic Sandwich. Most recent gadget is the "birefringent filter," designed in 1940 by Dr. John W. Evans of Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Calif. It is a multi-decker sandwich of thin quartz plates and sheets of polaroid, which passes only light of a single pure color. Accomplishing the same object as the spectroheliograph, it is much more effective and easier for astronomers to use. When built into a coronagraph, it lets the complexities of the sun's atmosphere be seen in all their terrifying glory...
High (11,500 ft.) in the Rockies near Climax, Colo., Dr. Roberts watches the sun through the thin, clean air and through Harvard's coronagraph, with its birefringent filter. He finds the sight a perpetual three-ring circus. From the dazzling surface of the sun (well screened by his gadgets), enormous gaseous solar "prominences" leap in graceful arcs at several hundred miles per second, driven by unknown forces (see cut). Little "spicules" (big enough to be seen at least 93 million miles away) jab up and fall back in four minutes. The ghostly corona waxes and wanes...
...these characteristics are present in The Magician. The title story is about a world-famed theatrical producer who does not realize how thin his life has become until he stumbles on two of his servants making love and lustily gorging their bellies on the leftovers from one of his dinner parties. The Suitcase is about a traveling salesman who finds himself in a hotel room with an unknown woman's overnight case -which he unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna...