Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boss Curry. The present leader of Tammany Hall (and hence New York City's Boss) is 57-year-old, blue-eyed, thin-thatched little John Francis Curry. He is a shrewd pinochle-player, but by no means the most potent leader the Wigwam ever had. He is a lifelong resident of the "San Juan Hill Section" (middle West Side). His election to Tammany's leadership in 1929 was hotly contested by the East Side, whence came Alfred dEmanuel Smith. Like most New York bosses, Mr. Curry is of Irish descent and distinguished himself by early physical prowess, in his case...
...which will yield if struck by a cake of ice. Close by is a flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
...other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency without the worm eaten prop of dry scholarship...
Republican members of the 72nd House of Representatives met last week in what began as a caucus and ended as a conference.* Their purpose was to arrange for party organization of the next House in which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...