Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord & Thomas sent me to Washington to ghost a thin book for Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. I never got to meet Mr. Mellon but the book, How to Save Your Savings: by Andrew W. Mellon must have pleased...
...strongest labor unions in the world is the Organization of Matadors de Toros, professionals and semi-professionals, which makes all the contracts for all the legitimate bullfights of Spain. Last week a group of swarthy, thin-hipped gentlemen met at the union's handsome Madrid headquarters to consider a new menace...
...workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
...mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella's customary limit was 24,600 ft. but she had been specially primed for this flight. Up, up she pulled the Caproni and Donati, into thin air and a temperature of -68° F; eight miles, 8½ miles, just 180 ft. short of nine. Then Pilot Donati pointed to earth, came down so fast he fainted when his wheels touched the field. His altitude mark was 2,521 ft. higher than the world record held...
...week people began to fill up the ornate Gothic chapel of the University of Chicago. They kept streaming in after every seat was occupied, stood in massed ranks at the back, trickled into the high galleries over the arches. They stormed applause when a stooped, smallish man with wide thin shoulders and greying hair appeared. They waited in silence while he adjusted the pince-nez balanced precariously on his narrow, prominent nose, ruffled some papers covered with fine, precise handwriting, began to speak in a clear, pleasant voice...