Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both observers and newsmen reported that the nimble lights could wheel and pirouette faster than the German tanks; that the thin side armor of German mediums was poor protection against the 37-mm. cannon of the U.S.-made tanks...
Shadow of the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is more aptly titled than was meant. This fourth working of a once-rich lode comes up with very little pay dirt. Its great-grandparent, The Thin Man, made as a quickie seven years ago, grossed a million or so dollars and incidentally delighted U.S. cinemillions with the brand-new Hollywood discovery that a man and his wife could be in love with each other...
...withdrawn were they in power. For if it is necessary for them to overthrow the government by force (as they apparently would like to do--else why do they advocate it?), it follows then that they and their constituents are in a minority. From this fact it is, I thin, reasonable to deduce that in order to remain in power our hypocritically successful revolutionists would themselves find it necessary to suppress freedom of speech...
Total Espionage is 1) an analysis of Nazi methods, organization, successes; 2) a sketch of the piteous failure of the Allies in the same field; 3) a heartening if somewhat thin prognosis based on the awakening of the Western Hemisphere to danger and to action. By its very nature such a book can be neither complete nor wholly reliable. But it is the fullest treatment of an absorbing and important subject so far in World...
...devices of a lecturer who is accustomed to talking down. That the book can succeed at all against such malpractice is a tribute 1) to neatness and effort, 2) to the plain grandeur of the subject. Its literary honors will be few; and its royalties belong, by rights, to thin...