Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface a giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter...
...stockholders' meeting of Borden & Co. journeyed about 15 Manhattan gentlewomen primed with leading questions. The League of Women Shoppers, least vague, best-mannered consumer pressure group of its kind, was making its first sortie on the management of a company whose labor policy it disapproved. After the meeting, thin, exasperated Chairman Albert Goodsell Milbank rumbled that nothing like this had happened in 80 years...
Then Dr. Filatov cuts two short slots in the opaque cornea, one on each side of the hidden pupil. Through those slots he slides a thin blade of ivory. This protects the patient's crystalline lens and prevents aqueous humor from escaping when Dr. Filatov cuts out a small disk from the cornea directly over the pupil...
...Manhattan after a winter's painful stay in Havana. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter...
...week in a Nazi jail because Nazi strategists dared neither bring him to trial nor chop off his head. Despite all the exiles, all the concentration camps, all the executions, there were still enough undercover followers of Ernst Thalmann left at large in Germany last week to spread a thin layer of anti-Nazi leaflets from Switzerland to the Baltic...