Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging the 12-ft. rock tube to hold cast-iron tunnel...
...poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen and cut-out a more penetrating photographic exposure was given to the thick part of her body than...
...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
...piece of heavy copper wire vaporized into thin...
...Conqueror was fighting the Battle of Hastings (1066) bearded bards in Wales were taking crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with...