Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. His previous books have examined the construction and administration of those structures; Castle (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95) once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing crosshatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period...
...rocks Barghoorn and Knoll collected during a visit last year revealed no traces of early life. But the scientists soon uncovered the stones' secrets. Returning to Harvard with samples of the rock, the pair used a diamond cutter's saw to slice several chunks into wafers so thin that light could pass through them. Examining these sections under a microscope, they discovered thousands of microfossils of individual and paired cells, some long and thin, others flat, wrinkled or folded, but all similar to those found in rocks dating from a much later period in the earth...
...Tall, thin, bearded Principal Edwin Barker is popular with students and community alike. "He does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high...
...seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...
Penn (4-3, 5-4) turned in still another surprise win at Franklin Field, handing Dartmouth (4-3, 5-4) its third razor-thin loss of the fall, 7-3. The Big Green nearly pulled it out in coach Jake Crouthamel's finale, driving to the Penn two-yard line in the last quarter before quarterback Buddy Teevens' fourth down keeper came up inches short of the first down...