Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nations (TIME, Nov. 20). Nonetheless, anyone was privileged to say last week, and some did, that "opposition to Hitler has doubled"?i. e., the "noes" had risen from 4.9% to 9.9% in nine months. In Italy, where the envelope in which plebiscite ballots are cast is so thin that it reveals how each man votes, Il Duce won his last plebiscite...
...Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was mannish. And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked...
From its one long thin wing, its four mighty motors, the row of portholes in its fat body, many an observer rightly guessed that it was the Sikorsky 8-42, world's largest amphibian. What they did not know was that it was on its final acceptance test-flight for Pan American Airways; that it was breaking eight world's records by flying the greatest load the greatest distance at the greatest speed...
Upstairs panic-stricken State functionaries tore about with flying coattails, locking the thin, white doors that were now the Cabinet's sole defense. Swinging rifle butts like battering rams, the invaders crashed down door after door, advancing slowly and methodically through the vast building and making up batches of hostages as they went. "This lot is to be shot first, if we are attacked. That lot next...
...mastering minutiae, overcoming practical obstacles. More social than his partner, chunky bespectacled Mr. Root enjoys peering at Lake Michigan from the Saddle & Cycle Club, going to parties. He was promoter and part-owner last year of the Century of Progress' most popular concession, the Streets of Paris. Tall, thin, gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses to exhibit his trophies on the walls of the Holabird & Root office at 333 North Michigan Avenue, a skyscraper they designed. Last week he was practicing his fishing skill at swank...