Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...
...blindly in the puddles, taking out segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into a cauldron, fished around until the two little bones were retrieved...
...aspiring House pucksters who may have been practicing during the vacation in the hope of finding two shiny new rinks awaiting them at Soldiers Field on their return are to be disappointed, for the trend of events during the holidays has caused the dispersion into thin air of both the proposed rinks and the schedule...
...Thin Man (TIME, July...
...just in time to make a fine Christmas present for her schoolmates at Miss Hewitt's Classes was a thin, blue & white book of Poems by Edith Kingdon Gould, 14, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould. On the day it was published Manhattan newshawks called at the Goulds' Manhattan penthouse, found the butler and Miss Edith, a well-poised girl with bangs and saucer eyes, at home. Said Poet Gould. "I suppose I must get used to this if I am going to be any good with my verse." Thereupon she rattled solemnly: "I have been writing poetry since...