Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later, Frau Budde died on a red plush sofa, wrapped in a thin army blanket supplied by Faseler (she had none of her own). Dr. Elfriede Acker, who handles about 120 frostbite patients a day, reported death by freezing. For six days, Frau Budde lay on her plush sofa, while the wind whipped the brown paper that covered the windows. At last, overworked attendants removed her to an overcrowded cemetery. It was much too cold for Old Man Faseler to attend the funeral...
...they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only by the eye but by the "bock" sound it makes hitting the wall. Racquets, thin-shafted and fragile, are also costly. The late Charles Williams, regarded as one of the greatest of all racquets players, once broke 26 of them in five sets-about $200 worth...
...subjects into something horrendous (or sometimes absurdly simple). The first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they emerged as a nightmare vision of two twisted and highly ambiguous beasts (see cuts...
When Edgar Kobak became boss of the Mutual Broadcasting System, it was a nationwide junkpile of 247 "light bulbs" and "coffee pots" (low-power radio stations). That year (1944), advertisers spent $19,600,000 for Mutual's thin air; in 1946, $25,800,000. And this week Mutual signed up its 400th station: Atlantic City's 250-watt WMID. It was the 15th station to join Mutual in 15 days, the 153rd since Kobak took over...
...glance at the situation can only result in accepting the situation that exists. No college whose endowment stems chiefly from its football team can be expected to cut off its source of life; no tennis tournament entrepreneur is going to eliminate his well-padded list of expense accounts. The thin line that divides "amateur" from "professional" is becoming ever thinner, and no amount of high-flown oratory is going to stop it from doing so. Since any kind of a backward step is very unlikely, about all we can hope for is that professionalism may not go much further forward...