Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cartoonist Strube started out to paint. Four cars followed with newsmen and photographers. Churchill fled by motorboat and retired to his 15-room suite in the Grand Hotel. Next day he made amends by posing for bathing-suit photographs. (Observed Milan's weekly Oggi: "Churchill has very thin ankles, absolutely disproportionate to his weight . . . Nobody can say Churchill in a bathing suit is very attractive . . .") Then he made arrangements to go on a painting trip in a motorboat. It banged into a pier, had to be repaired before he got aboard...
...coming atomic age, it is studying the effect of radiation on man and other living organisms. This involves basic work on body cells and their chemistry, for radiation kills cells by causing subtle chemical changes inside them. At Argonne, AEC scientists are irradiating small bats and examining their tissue-thin wings under high-power microscopes, to study the effects of radiation on blood and its delicate corpuscles...
Although the steel industry had been Gloomy Gussing for weeks as its production rate sagged and its backlog of orders thinned, first-half earnings for many companies were the best in history. U.S. Steel's $94 million net was up 76%, Bethlehem's $59.9 million a shade less than 100%. But Bethlehem's Chairman Eugene G. Grace, who first warned against slackening steel demand six months ago, now said: "We have been living on our accumulated fat ... and it is getting thin...
...stars quivered like notes shaken from the thin white tambourine of the moon ... A nightjar chirred. A rabbit made a minute crackle...
Studying a sky photograph taken last month with their new 48-in. Schmidt telescope, two astronomers at Palomar Observatory spotted a thin streak made by a rapidly moving object. When the streak, in slightly different positions, showed up on later photographs, the astronomers were sure they had seen something new. Last week Drs. Seth B. Nicholson and Robert S. Richardson announced that the streak was an asteroid (midget planet) only nine-tenths of a mile in diameter and about 8,000,000 miles away from the earth...