Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Schaaf's death Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, ordered dissection of the brain. His assistants hardened the organ, sliced it microscopically thin. The microscope showed that Schaaf, before he went into his last fight, had been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...
...country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear of Tammany Hall. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (hobby, art collecting) and of Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified appeals for charity from behind a mustache which is less voluminous than it once was. His brother is famed Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn; his wife was Alice Dodge, which accounts...
...trade and criticism as an Irish novel," which means that the prose style is "poetic," that the narrative is threaded with "Irish mysticism," and that the here is a melancholy follow, walking in twilight and yellow fog, and meditating on old, unhappy far-off things. There is a thin and rather outre plot, not much narrative, but considerable dissection of mood and temperament...
Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky is 43, medium tall, slim, dark-eyed, dark-haired, sharp-featured, thin-lipped, good-humored. His family is at Prague's social top. His father taught Roman Law at Prague. He teaches physics and chemistry at Charles University, Prague, is a fellow of the University College of London where he perfected his science and English...
...promised $20,000,000. Huey Long announced: "I am not a betting man but I am willing to bet no person loses a thin dime. . . . Watch for Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...