Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of Newell Boat House is still six inches thick, but below Anderson bridge opposite Weld Boat House the ice is very thin, and below the next two bridges farther down there is clear water, largely due to the hot water discharged into the river from heating plants...
...first part of the picture is hardly more than a succession of historical scenes, vividly pictured, and joined together by a thin thread of actual plot. The beauty of the photography and the turbulence of the action carry it through. George III is pictured as the king "who ever warred with freedom and the free," George Washington is remarkably acted by Arthur Dewey without undue exaggeration; and Samuel Adams and John Hancock are brought forth as the guiding spirits of the Northern Colonies. Paul Revere's ride and the Battle of Lexington are as vivid as screen art can make...
...drinks at the Union or enters unconventionally into the discussions with a clink of glasses and a Germanic "Hoch!" Such men as Raleigh and the Virginia planters have put an end to that-- not to mention men more notorious. The clear air of discussion is now clouded with thin blue smoke, so that such gatherings as that to be held tonight should be more aptly termed "smokosiums", and may the best man smoke the others...
...statues of bulls, three feet high, made of thin copper plates over a wooden core. Their horns were of gold...
...gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...