Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin crust is elastic, yields to strains and stresses. Places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another 100,000 years must pass before a similar glacier could descend upon & depress the region-Irving Bollard Crosby (Boston), Richard J. Lougee (Columbia...
...class was limited to models of 30 sq. in. maximum wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still in the air for a new world record in its class...
...went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father Frederick Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam is his sixth book. Others: Confusion, Michael Scarlett, Cockpit, Son of Perdition...
...Didrikson, expert exponent of all sports. Last week, while the A. A. U. pondered her case, she announced that they need ponder no longer, that she would turn professional out & out. The Southern A. A. U. soon announced that she was exonerated, reinstated. But logical Babe Didrikson closed her thin lips, shook her long jaw, stuck to her decision. She said she wanted to write about sports and perhaps other subjects, also "do some film work." Further Didrikson plans...
...screen several feet away from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile liquids. The copper slide yielded the most striking results...