Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California. Six of the ships will be Douglas Airliners, a newly developed craft now being tried out by Transcontinental & Western Air. It is said to fly 200 m.p.h. so quietly that passengers can hear the engines of passing planes, can be kept awake by cabin conversations. In tests in thin air over Arizona it took off and flew, fully loaded, on one of its twin engines...
...instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough to bring remote stars into Earth...
...audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...
...young Sophomore taking English A-2, which is a more advanced composition course than English A-1, as the numbers might indicate. This Sophomore had the enviable position of being Harvard reporter for several New York and Philadelphia papers, to which he sent a steady trickle of thin Harvard news...
...current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...