Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wearing of rubbers or galoshen in wet weather has not always been a cardinal virtue. Only a few centuries ago John Locke gave the following instruction with regard to children: "I will advise his Feet to be washed every Day incold Water, and to have his Shoes so thin that they might leak and let in Water, Whenever he comes near...
...good name of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, the 47 Club is giving its second performance of "Dear Jane" tomorrow evening at the National Theatre. The first performance yesterday afternoon proved that the play is a thin but entertaining comedy that might almost be one of Jane Austen's own novels boiled down to fit the stage. As the charming authoress, Mrs. Massey carried the burden of the acting brilliantly. Miss Hovenden, Mr. Massey, and especially Miss Sibley were attractive in their respective roles, while Alexander Steinert Jr. gave a charming musical interlude on the antique piano of Beethoven. Scenery...
...standing army to 115,000 men and 11,000 officers,--this in the name of "necessary economizing". Under the plan now in operation the army is already being reduced to 150,000 men and 13,000 officers, and that makes its necessary to spread the effectives pretty thin to cover the various posts. Coast defense units are everywhere being pared to the quick, and even at that all but the more important fortifications are being abandoned. Our contingent in Germany is being withdrawn. In the Philippines, in Hawaii, at Panama, barely enough men are maintained to man the necessary defences...
...contributions to the exchange. To be sure the ensemble on view was a bit below average owing to various reasons. The real sensation of the day, however, was provided in the lost and found columns. We had no idea that so many of August's best had vanished into thin air at the Stadium. Dozens of men lost their "form-fit chapeaux", but very few had found a thing worthy of disposal at the exchange;--and that is saying something...
...that is ended. When the lecturer finds himself talking into thin air, he has but to throw a switch, and behold! the New Lecture Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive...