Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn by doing it? If the object of college is the cultivation of the intellect and the pursuit of knowledge, why can't I cultivate and pursue without the guilty thought of the report I should be writing? Why does the American system of college education spread so thin...
...hundredth of its official value: 4,500 to the U.S. dollar on the free market v. a government-controlled rate of 45. At the annual congress of the Civil Servants Union, government clerks demanded a raise. They had cause; a bachelor clerk today earns only 450 rupiah, or one thin dime, a month...
...Francis Bacon and inspired the ancient alchemists to try, as John Milton put it, "to turn metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold." The alchemists never succeeded in making gold, but Du Font's button-down chemists are doing something nearly as good. By rearranging the molecules of thin air, plain water, grimy coal and crude oil, they are not only transforming and enriching the fabric of daily life but laying the foundations for new industries. Lately they have been so successful that Du Pont, the oldest big name in U.S. business, is entering a new era of change...
...positive images on film without a negative-an innovation potentially as important as the Polaroid process -and announced plans to introduce a Du Pont color film for home movies. > Brought out an unusually versatile plastic, Surlyn, which scientists can make either hard or soft, transparent or opaque, thick or thin simply by jiggering its ion content; it will be used in such varied products as packaging film, pipes, costume jewelry. >Embarked on an expansion project to enlarge its eight big textile plants and to launch a full-scale assault on foreign markets, where Du Pont is building seven new factories...
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...