Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superficially, they were almost as unlike s two young people could be. Square-aced, serious Ed Willock, 30, a Boston Catholic with a high-school education, supported his wife & four children as a shipping clerk, studied commercial art on the side. Thin, big-eyed Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they...
...fellowships." Served up in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design, "Paintings of the Year" (267 of the 5,034 entries) was a better show than its two Pepsi-Cola predecessors, but it was nevertheless a massive layer cake of second-rate work. On top lay a thin icing of successful...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
...sell the kind of books I like, I might just as well be in the grocery business," said Mr. G. C. Cairnie, a thin-haired gentleman who runs the atelier-type Grolier Book Shoppe on upper Plympton Street. Cairnie's tastes, a hasty inspection of the shelves revealed, range from Aeschylus to Zweig, not excluding Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and Lewis Mumford. "Of course, I don't do a tremendous business," the attic entreprenur claimed, as he frightened off a young Radcliffe studen looking for a volume of Muzzey's "American History," slightly used, "but it's a living...
...itself. This year the nation had hoped to produce 6,000,000 automobiles, start 1,200,000 houses and other goods in like proportion. This overall program was so great that neither materials nor labor were sufficient to meet it in a single year. Materials were spread so thin that shortages held back all production, until neither the normal efficiency nor normal profits of mass production could be achieved...