Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is, however, that expenses are above this level and that any increase in financial aid for some students is at the expense of high costs to all. If the University chooses to apply the available money to those most in need of it, rather than spread it thin in a general reduction of rents and food prices, there is much to be said for this policy. But it should not lose sight of the fact that the real purpose of the policy is to assist men through College. In setting the prices of some of the rooms...
...game. Sometimes the ball bounces far to the right, sometimes far to the left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads...
...think, however, admission should be charged, if only a nominal sum, say a thin dime. The proceeds could then be used for large departmental teas, which would do much to promote the esprit de corps, to use a French expression...
...Press reports have greatly exaggerated the secrecy of our expedition and the value of the gold discovered," Dr. Lothrop said. "Actually, the many gold ornaments were beaten very thin and would not be valuable if melted...
...life at Grasse, France. The Well of Days tells the story of his quiet youth in the country he loves and thinks he will never see again. As in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the names of people and places are changed, but the thin disguise is not intended to deceive. A nonpolitical novelist, Bunin is out of step with his countrymen but beats no rival drum. Quietly certain that Russia is on the down grade, he says: "I know for sure that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might...