Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class has about 75 children so far and the bachelor ranks are becoming thin already. Of the hundreds of letters received, none has expressed any feeling of remorse for four years of college...
...were tagged by Esquire's feminine investigator as grossly overrated: "They are not gallant in a practical way. They meet you at a bar for cocktails at five-thirty, make violent love to you-and then go home for dinner." Physically "they are not only short: they are thin, too, with narrow shoulders and wide hips: in other words-bell-bottomed." Nor can they hold their liquor: "All Latins have trouble with their livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference to the bathroom and the elimination processes...
Five years ago Mrs. Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue...
...color process too delicate for mass reproduction, in which thin sheets of gelatin instead of metal plates are used for printing...
With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...