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Word: thinly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues squirmed and dodged. Michigan's plump, thin-haired Vanclenberg, Republican might-have-been of 1936 and maybe of 1940, put their agony in unequivocating words. Declared he: "One of the reasons why we in the Senate find ourselves in trouble at the moment in connection with this problem is the fact that Governmental agencies dealing with labor relationships have been so completely silent respecting the Sit-Down strike. They are very vocal indeed respecting the obligations of the employer, but as silent as the tomb respecting obligations to law and order and the maintenance of civilized society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rip Tide | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...story is transparently thin, and the acting is uniformly bad. Miss Moore, as an opera star deported by the quirks of the immigration law, who gets back to the United States by marrying Cary Grant, a wandering artist, is utterly unconvincing. Perhaps the worst scene we can recall, not only in this picture, but in all we have seen this year, is that in which Miss Moore plays fairy godmother to a particularly unpleasant crowd of yelling children by singing an inane song in her strained, professionally cheery manner. The rest of the cast, Aline MacMahon, Cary Grant, and Luis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...throne, walked a few steps to the altar throne. .During Mass, celebrated by Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, the Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host. To the faithful who had not seen him. since the beginning of his illness last December, he looked thin, drawn, old. He blew his nose frequently, once shot a reassuring smile at Dr. Milani who stood nearby, looking nervous. After Mass, Pius XI was carried to the balcony below which, in St. Peter's Square, were jammed 150,000 people. Upon these, in a firm voice which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's Easter | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...bases of the merit of the briefs Rowe, assisted by three others, will attempt to thin the ranks to 12 speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Speakers Retained In Coolidge Prize Tryouts | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

Famed in steel for another kind of conversion is American Rolling Mill-the continuous process for converting a white hot ingot into a long, thin sheet or strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eternal Verity | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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