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Word: thinly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Different Pitch. This was fast-breaking basketball, a cut above the collegiate brand and only a thin slice below the deadly precision of the best pros. Technically, at least, the players of the National Industrial Basketball League are amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Executives on the Court | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Entreves was about to launch into a discourse on professors, students and not-mattering-much, but promptly at four o'clock he rose, put on his foulard muffler, expressed thanks for the interview, and departed. Halfway out of the door he turned, smiled his thin, winking smile, and apologized, "Tea, you know," and left...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: European Out of Context | 2/7/1957 | See Source »

...hundred cyrotrons can fit into a thimble. Cryotrons are little coils of hair-thin wire wrapped around a piece of straight wire...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Soviet Officials Cutback Industrial Growth, Defense Spending Down; Dulles Disclaims Fear of Reds | 2/6/1957 | See Source »

That ghostly old grandmother, Rumor, which had predicted one of the closest matches of the season when Navy met the varsity swimming team here Saturday night, proved herself as thin and misty as ever. The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimming Team Topples Navy by Unexpected 66-20 Score | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...door." Later "anniversary" loot: fancy apartments in Manhattan and Venezuela, mink, more diamonds. Sighed Terry: "Gene made me give all my own jewelry to my mother because he wants everything I have to come from him! I'm so happy-that's why I'm so thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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