Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want to get fat, you can have pisco from the strawberry bottle; if you want to get thin, pisco puro, solo [straight...
Report from Barber Frederick Harvey, whose shop gives George Bernard Shaw a haircut about four times a year: "Mr. Shaw is getting a little thin on top now, but is still remarkably thick at the sides. He is wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
...best-known dance team: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The last time Fred and Ginger whirled across the screen together (The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939), they were impersonating the famed ballroom dance team of the pre-World War I era. In The Bar-kleys, despite a thin veneer of fiction which makes them husband & wife, they are impersonating the world-famous cinema dance team of the '30s: Astaire & Rogers...
...operational airplane"; it is more like a flying wind tunnel. Its big advantage is that its rockets, which produce a thrust of 6,000 Ibs., are not weakened, like "air-breathing" engines, by high speed or high altitude. The X-1 can whip up to where the air is thin and still have power to pick up speed as long as the fuel lasts...
...able to carry nearly twice as much lox and alcohol. This single improvement (there may be others) should push it into a much higher speed range. Numerous guessers around California airfields speculate that it ought to climb well above 100,000 ft. At this altitude the air is so thin that tremendous speed should be possible...