Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dessye, Ethiopia's main headquarters for its northern defense forces, is 150 miles from Makale and half way to Addis Ababa. There until last week stayed thin-faced big-eyed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan at the head of 10,000 well equipped warriors. Suddenly he stepped from an airplane at Addis Ababa, to be warmly greeted by his father the Emperor and hustled off to the palace. There he would rule, courtiers said, on behalf of Haile Selassie when and if the Emperor goes to the front...
Only about two per cent of the earth's atmosphere was above the explorers and absorption due to ozones is believed to be less at such a high altitude, and as the air particles would be very thin, there would be no interference with the rays...
...Governor of Kansas," snorted Mr. Hopkins, "has never put up a thin dime for the unemployed in Kansas. The Governor has never made an effort. Of course some cities and counties in Kansas have done well but the State has not done anything. The last thing I knew about the Governor he was trying to get money out of me to keep his schools open...
...indignant belief that his attentions to the female spy are nothing but a wanton flirtation finally lands them in a trap where the dapper lieutenant saves Joel from gunfire by knocking her down with a blow on the jaw, almost precisely as Powell did to Myrna Loy in The Thin...
Hudson closed 1934 with working capital a thin $1,700,000, a year's deficit of $3,239,000. By Sept. 1, 1935, working capital was up to $10,600,000, thanks, in part, to a $6,000,000 loan from the New York and Chicago Federal Reserve Banks. Hudson, largest of the independents, sold 300,000 cars in 1929, dropped to 38,000 in 1933. Sales for the first nine months of this year came to 56,676 cars, mostly Terraplanes, and Hudson may make a small 1935 profit...