Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother were married there and a record showing the birth of his elder brother, David, at Rehoboth, Mass. . . . Thorp died without issue and outlived his wife. . . . He had left no evidence of having been distinguished by any quality excepting great mechanical skill and vision." Bound to this sadly thin genealogy was a picture. The New York Journal of Commerce reproduced that picture and under it printed...
...painful situation required thought. The clerks thought, and their thoughts rose like thin spirals of incense through the executive organization of the Happiness Candy Stores, to the executive organization of the United Cigar Stores, which operates the Happiness chain. And last week the plan took form, which made the diligent store clerks rejoice...
...Thin, electric, reddish of hair she faced...
...cloaked for an instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded. Merciless because inanimate it had blown the laughing girl-child so utterly to atoms that afterwards only her left hand could be found, and identified by a thin, cheap ring...
...blights more terrible could fall upon the Symphony Halls of the seaboard cities than to deny admittance to the English lecturer, or to thin the great richness of his subject matter by elimination of the educational question. But his contemplative eye should early learn the difference of the American problem, a problem that is at once as great and young and changing as the Manhattan skyscrapers that first greet...