Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...Noah became masters of American Woolen Co. in 1930, the company had lost $10,000,000 in three years and stockholders had actually thought of giving up. Dividends on common stock had ceased in 1924. Wool prices had fallen from $1.55 in 1925 to 65? in 1930. A thin-lipped Yankee named Andrew Pierce had done all he could to reorganize the company after a fatal post-War spending and production boom had piled up huge unsalable inventories. The year he resigned the deficit was the third biggest in the company's history. Neither Mr. Warner, who became chairman...
Director Eisenstein is, without doubt, one of the cleverest directors in the world today. He transposes landscape, faces, shadows, and even emotions to the screen without resorting to artificial lighting. His plot, however, is a thin one, and his nostalgic idealism may possibly bore one. He sketchily traces the life of a peon in the Diaz regime. The rich land owners are cruel, avaricious, and they love to assault innocent poor girls. The peon was miserable; therefore he revolted, and the Mexico of today arrived. Happiness, and an impeccable army, blooming youth, and more army. A glorious consummation...
...Boston last week wintry winds whined around the Massachusetts General Hospital but their mournful sound went unheard by a tall thin patient who lay at death's door. The critical illness of Albert Morton Lythgoe, 66, made headlines in newspapers the length & breadth of the land, not because he was once Curator of Egyptology in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, but because ten years ago he saw opened the sarcophagus of a footling little man named TutankhAmen who ruled Egypt 13 centuries before Christ. Was it not written: "Here lies the great King and whoso disturbs this...
Probably the boldest procedure which Dr. Matas devised is the Matas Operation. Under some conditions an artery will blow up like a toy balloon. Its walls grow paper thin. This is an aneurism which any rough usage or surgery is apt to burst. Dr. Matas conceived the plan of opening the blood filled sacs, stitching the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal sized bore...