Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hostile newspapers, Boss Pendergast does not mind, but when reporters quote him as saying "I seen," he rages. Educated at St. Mary's College, Kansas, he is proud of his English, makes occasional errors which he quickly corrects. A huge, hearty man (232 lb.), he is 61, has thin hair almost white. A wholesale liquor dealer before Prohibition, he now runs a ready-mixed concrete business which local contractors wisely patronize. In his shabby little office he dispenses patronage three days a week...
...teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they took him to a hospital in Wilkes-Barre. Here he lay last week, thin, white, sandy-haired, his body slowly turning to bone...
...roar of applause, policemen shielded him from a surging wave of would-be handshakers. Newshawks scrambled for typewriters and telephones to describe what some of them considered the best show in Washington since President Roosevelt's inauguration. Col. Lindbergh was succeeded on the witness stand by the thin-haired flyer who followed him across the Atlantic. Clarence Duncan Chamberlin. Asked if he approved of the contract annulments, he replied: "There seems to have been plenty of reason for doing so, but whether sufficient I don't know." Requested to identify the airlines which he had elsewhere asserted were...
...risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself from deadly fumes emanating from the ice he also put on a mask connected to a small oxygen tank carried in his hand. He clumped up a stepladder, lifted the box's lid. climbed down inside. A few slow seconds...
...products to personnel. While Stewart-Warner was slowly slipping, one of its subsidiaries, which is better known under its own name, continued to pile up profits. Alemite Corp. now makes lubricating systems for 99% of all automobiles produced. Many of Alemite's gadgets were developed by a tall, thin, long-nosed inventor named Oscar Ulysses Zerk, who once served in the Austrian army. When Alemite took over certain of Mr. Zerk's patents, it also took over Mr. Zerk. Inventor Zerk fiddled around in Stewart-Warner's laboratories for five years without much encouragement. When his contract...