Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtually inaccessible during more than four-fifths of the year. Washburn, along with W. C. Everett '33, camped out at altitudes of 10,000, 12,900, and 15,000 feet on one occasion struggling through snow up to their waists at an altitude of 14,000 feet, where the thin air is a great cause of weakness...
...there was one amongst this happy group who, most regrettably, felt that he had work to do. He sat, part of each day, in a high studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean...
...obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade. To keep the Board from skyrocketing tariffs up at once beyond all reason, Free Trader Mac-Donald (still a Socialist), appointed Free Trader Runciman (Liberal) to be President of the Board of Trade. To keep his job President Runciman, cold, thin-lipped and rigidly Northumbrian, had to appease the pro-tariff majority in the House of Commons by some fairly drastic move...
...Bergius is the physical antithesis of his chief in the Farbenindustrie: he is tall, thin, has no top hair, wears a monocle. Last week he was on his way to Pittsburgh to address the International Coal Conference with another German, Dr. Franz Fischer of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute. His method of hydrogenating anthracite under 100 atmospheres pressure at 100° C. to produce synthetic petroleum he turned over to the dye trust and went on to new discoveries. He believes hydrogenation of petroleum would produce 105 gallons of gasoline from 100 gallons of oil, expects this method to be used...
Author. Henry Fowles Pringle, 34, was born in New York City, graduated by Cornell in 1919. Slender, dark, thoughtful, sucking a thin-stemmed pipe, he reported for New York papers (Sun, Globe, World), steeped himself in New York politics, contributed to magazines. In 1929 for a year he was acting managing editor of Outlook, is still an associate editor. His other books: Alfred E. Smith : A Critical Study (1927), Big Frogs (1928), Industrial Explorers (1928). A relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House...