Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government. Executive Director Samuel A. Goldsmith of the Jewish Charities of Chicago declared that there would be 150.000 destitute families in Chicago by March, and by that time there would be no more funds available to help them. All three agreed that relief funds were now being spread so thin that those being helped were on "iron rations...
...have been sought is one of mutual respect. Each church has long performed acts of hospitality toward the other, such as inviting visiting prelates to officiate at services, or caring temporarily for stranded parishioners of the other faith. After the Lambeth Conference of 1930, where doctrinal differences were threshed thin, a commission to continue threshing was appointed. In its report of last week, signed by Rt. Rev. Arthur Cayley Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester...
Scientists have sought in vain a practical chemical preservative for newspapers. The New York Times prints 250 copies per day of its regular edition on rag paper for $100 per year for subscribers. The New York Public Library coats with thin Japan tissue every page of every paper in its files published since 1916. The Library of Congress keeps its 80,000 bound volumes in a room at 70° temperature and 40% humidity. Suggestion by Dr. Buck: photograph news pages in reduced facsimile on special long-lasting paper...
...publishers announced there would be no change in the editorial staff, headed by thin-faced Editor Percy Waxman. Founder Ahnelt continued as chair-man of the board, the usual indication of a sale involving future payments out of earnings...
...another the little quail also a topotypical speciman. There is an abundance of small Wallaby here, an island race of Macropus eugenii. . . Our two weeks passed very quickly and pleasantly, though water was very scarce and we were limited to about two cups a day, which is a bit thin when one is ranging about in hot weather...