Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin edge between Science with its august curiosity and Mankind with its idle curiosity, Dr. Alexis Carrel awakened in 1935 with his best seller, Man, The Unknown, fresh and healthy faith in medicine's sounder marvels...
...devout Ireland, where an impression has grown that the Holy Father this winter is on increasingly thin geographical ice, the Fianna Fail (Government Party) Convention was besought last week in Dublin to offer "sanctuary in Ireland" to Pius XI. Cried the sponsor of this proposal, Cork City Delegate Eoin O'Mahoney, "I believe that as a result of sanctions Italy will be smashed, and if Mussolini goes the Holy Father will have...
Experience has shown that the surface is too thin; the lacquer chips, probably falls off soon after divisionals. Even with four courses the student cannot cover the world from Pericles to Stalin in two short years and have anything but the most casual acquaintance with the subject. Far better to let the courses continue to be surveys, and the tutorial work a more thorough investigation of territory already covered. Instead of being responsible for four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells...
...thin, middle-aged woman stood in the darkened pit at the Chicago Opera House last week, waving a baton as if she believed it possessed some superhuman power. Her eyes blazed. She tossed her bushy head this way & that, pointed vigorous commands to the singers on the stage. Ethel Leginska had good reason to make much of the music, because she had written it. Hers was the distinction of being the world's first woman to conduct her own opera in an important opera house...
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...