Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm of Goldwater & Flynn, which prudently takes no Federal or State business, has prospered throughout thick years & thin, and unquestionably will continue to prosper. For all of the 1,349,711 citizens of The Bronx (a population larger than that of any of 15 States; greater than that of the South's three largest cities put together-Houston, New Orleans. Louisville) know Ed Flynn is a solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which...
...subject of courses before. No human being could possibly pronounce the required sounds without a bad case of cleft palate, much less make sense of the designs Russians scribbled on paper and tried to pass off as an alphabet. Now a slim fellow over in another corner, with a thin, nervous voice, was speaking very fast--punctuating his talk with short, indrawn laughs. Then everyone laughed again. This time Pag smiled weakly, closed his notebook, and shuffled his feet impatiently as he heard the muffled tones of the hour bell...
...very thin margin" separates the balance of sea power in the Pacific. Last week the U.S. claimed that margin. "Slowly but surely we are tightening our grip," said Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet...
...Skyrocket." Melvin ("Mel") Allen, 29, a tall, thin, dark-and-curly-haired, good-looking young man from Alabama, wears clothes like a fashion plate from Esquire. Mel likes to wisecrack, does it often in a pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable...
...fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding in an old-fashioned manner...