Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Toronto's thin-faced, reticent Dr. William Emet Blatz, who has charge of the Dionne Quintuplets' education, reported his charges were of average intelligence. Their mental growth was retarded by their premature birth, but they are now advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important...
...school-boy, reading of him, is likely to imagine him a great brute of a man, whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...Deal No. 2. Cautiously testing British public opinion, as one inches for ward on thin ice, Neville Chamberlain an nounced that "temporarily" the new Foreign Secretary would be Viscount Halifax. Pro-German but High-Church and idealistic, Lord Halifax-who "sees the in scrutable hand of Divine Providence at work almost everywhere," even in Germany and Italy-was Mr. Chamberlain's personal envoy last November to Herr Hitler. But His Majesty's Government this week obviously were thinking almost exclusively about Rome...
...This appears to us to be a case of vindictive persecution covered by a thin veneer of legal Phariseeism...
...London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above and below him. For aiding Free Belgium two men were shot and scores of others...