Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi, hope of millions of Indian Nationalists, continued his extraordinary progress to Britain last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside...
...made the first presidential nomination for 1932. Nominee of the Liberty Party was William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, So, half-blind veteran of the "free silver" era of politics. His nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least it was a gesture springing from strong political convictions that...
...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
Since 1919 when she won the women's championship for the first time, Mrs. Dorothy Smith Cummings has been the foremost U. S. lady archer. When she won again last week it was her seventh championship. Small, thin and wiry, she had 70 hits for a world's record score of 426 in the first National Round. Mrs. Cummings became a toxophilite at the age of nine; now in her late 20's, she shoots with placid abandon from an orthodox position with her heels at right angles to a line drawn from the gold. Observers were...
...Bobby Burke, tall, thin, usually erratic left-handed relief pitcher for the Washington Senators: a no-hit, no-run game, in which his team made no errors, against the Boston Red Sox, in Washington, 5 to o. C. St. Brideaux, three-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Handicap, feature at the opening of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., race meeting. Two days prior, a violent wind, rain and thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees...