Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Conference at Montevideo three years ago Mr. Hull flabbergasted and charmed his Latin-American colleagues: instead of paying them formally arranged visits he dropped in unannounced and waited his turn to be received; instead of going in top hat and cutaway, he clapped his grey fedora on his thin white hair and simply went calling.* As a class, Latin-American diplomats have been schooled abroad, but in Europe, not the U. S. Their clothes, their luxuries, not to mention their ideas of international affairs all come from Europe, and those of them who learned English in their youth...
...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
After developing one of his plates Anderson saw that he had scored a hit. To the untrained eye there was nothing but a ragged little white line. But to Anderson that line was astounding. It was thin and sketchy like the path of an electron. The particle had obviously traveled upward along the track and not downward, because it was more strongly bent above the lead plate. Also it had curved to the left. In that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti...
Bleak days, my fingers stiff in thin cold pigskin gloves, the wind whipping my trouserlegs, numbing my feet so that it hurts to step on them. Such stuff as colds are made...
Basic patent in question concerned the shaving mechanism in the head of the razor. The Schick Dry Shaver tapers to a thin edge of metal perforated by tiny slots. Whiskers caught in these slots are cut off by a blade shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence...