Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worksop in Nottinghamshire he took a day off from his own troubles to plead for the re-election of his son Malcolm. Again the MacDonald temper wore thin...
...north room on the ground floor, forming the only permanent exhibition of this sort in Boston. In one case are six pieces of modern Swedish glass, known as Orrefors "etched" glass, the decorations for which are in reality ground out by a spinning emery wheel. Besides several very thin glass vases, delicately etched, there is a jar, the walls of which vary in thickness and give it an under water effect...
This pretense grew too thin even for the London Times, traditionally friendly to Japan. "Granted that the Japanese troops in Mukden exceeded instructions," rumbled London's old Thunderer, "are they to continue to exceed them without any effective check from Tokyo until the Chinese surrender or explode...
...still at his priestlike task. Not only bright but steadfast, he surveys civilization with a calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion, all those who make...
...Author, A thin, wiry little man who looks something like Henry Ford but more like the Mad Hatter, Bertrand Arthur William Russell last March became, by the death of an elder brother, third Earl Russell. He plans to take his seat in the House of Lords, where his peers will probably give him a chilly reception. Well-known is he as author of many a book not calculated to give aid & comfort to orthodoxy: Roads to Freedom, Philosophy, Sceptical Essays, Marriage and Morals, The Conquest of Happiness...