Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
...Offensive in spots" were Stand Up and Cheer, Shoot the Works (see col. 3), The Thin Man, The Constant Nymph, It Happened One Night, Tarzan and His Mate, We're Not Dressing, Little Miss Marker, As the Earth Turns...
...pensions, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation. Nor is he the kind of antagonist who makes opponents love him in spite of honest differences. Chunky and spike-haired, he prides himself on speaking his mind anywhere about anything. When he gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert...
...Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when...