Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...
Merely pleasant too are most of the cast-pretty, thin-voiced Cinemactress Constance Moore, big-limbed Benay Venuta, gallery-god Ronald Graham. It's Ray Bolger's show. As husky Hippolyta's simpering, ladylike husband he is deft enough to draw many a laugh, skirt many a snicker. As a dancer he is superb-inexhaustibly inventive, unfailingly comic. But being the star of the show he has to carry too much on his shoulders to do all that he might with his feet...
...Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin and put in solitary confinement. Grilled mercilessly about unflattering stories he had written, he was on the thin edge when the Gestapo men suddenly shook hands, told him he would be returned to Italy...
...everything in its proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees in the Yard take on about the time of the first Yard Concert...
...replace the 1.6% of a tin can which is really war-precious tin, two new substitutes have recently been developed. Both are nonmetallic, both are practical, but neither is yet in commercial production. When they are, these organic materials (and others like them) may well replace the thin tin film on cans even after the wartime need for substitutes has passed...