Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow couldn't really stand on thin air or the side of a liner no matter how boundless his affections! Yet he's doing...
...Labor Service Corps; 4) return of women factory workers to domestic employment: 5) return of peasants who held jobs in factories to the land; and 6) new public works. Britain's Counselor estimated that in decreasing the number of the wholly unemployed the German Government spread work so thin that the per capita earning of the average employed worker has fallen. Simultaneously the cost of living has risen but the number of Germans who actually support themselves and neither require nor get State aid today has certainly increased...
This organization pays its own operating expenses with fees from manufacturers who want their technical problems to be tackled in the Institute's laboratories. In Andrew Mellon's pale thin fingers was placed a bronze plaque showing a young man in laboratory smock, holding up a test-tube and bestriding a smoky factory, with clouds in the shape of chemical retorts. Inscription: "The Pittsburgh Award to Andrew W. Mellon-For Outstanding Service to Chemistry. American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh Section." A similar award made posthumously to Brother Richard Beatty Mellon was received by his son, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon...
Last week George Milburn used the catalogs as the basis for a short, episodic bit of authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston...
...Contact lenses (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930) are thin glass shells which are fitted directly onto the eyeball, are almost invisible when in place. They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons, convenient for athletes. Since the curvature of the eye varies from one individual to another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made...