Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman James Rudolph Garfield of the Resolutions Committee, whose glasses, thin straight hair and small white mustache make him almost indistinguishable from a dozen prominent G. 0. Politicians, began reading the platform...
...least 385 votes, one-third of the convention. Delegations pledged to John Nance Gar ner, James Hamilton Lewis, George White. James A. Reed, William Henry Murray, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Harry Flood Byrd, plus his own vote, totaled 392. Could Al Smith hold the line with such a paper-thin margin? The Roosevelt men scoffed the idea...
...spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount...
Lever locks are better. They contain two or more thin, spring-action levers. Each lever must be raised to a certain, precise position before they will permit the key to engage the bolt. Ordinarily only keys whose bits are properly notched to touch and raise all the levers simultaneously can move the bolt...
...into a stone face of the Duke of Clarence and exiled himself for 18 years in Bruges, the Dead City of Belgium. Last week the same man, old and long forgotten, bowed low over King George's hand, stood before Queen Mary in silence, then flung out his thin arms in a Baroque gesture of gratitude...