Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Man. Harry Truman is the man in the grey suit, usually double-breasted. His college education consists of a brief spell at the Kansas City School of Law. He is an inconspicuous man with thin lips, steel-rimmed glasses, flatly combed grey hair, and a flat, not unpleasant Missouri twang...
...Erlanger is a small, earnest, 70-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate who was professor of physiology at St. Louis' Washington University for 34 years. Last July he became professor emeritus, but he goes right on teaching and experimenting. Dr. Gasser, 56, is the tall, thin physiologist who has headed the Rockefeller Institute since 1935 (TIME, July 22, 1935). He also is a Hopkins man, was also a Washington University teacher...
...funeral. There was room for only 250 inside the mortuary. Mrs. Willkie sat beside her son, Philip, a Navy lieutenant rushed back from convoy duty in the Atlantic for his father's funeral. Loud speakers were set up outside, and people stood on the lawn in the thin autumn sun shine. Three small boys sat on the mortuary steps self-consciously, hats held care fully in their laps; their elders greeted each other with the formality peculiar to small towns on grave occasions...
...expense of reconversion (average cost per unit: $35) will pay off in comfort. For coal users will not be able to keep warm this winter unless 1) the weather is mild; 2 ) they spread the thin supply skillfully. The prospects...
...Last week the Pope was described in a letter from Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York to his flock: "I . . . found him aged, thin and saddened since I had last seen him. Fifteen months of anxiety and pain have taken a heavy toll. No robust physical stature nor strong broad shoulders has the Pope to bear the sorrows of the world, but the Christlike figure, Christlike shoulders and above all a Christlike sanctity and spirit . . . he reminds me of the wounded Christ...