Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This might not work with paper, but papyrus is tougher. It was made by cutting thin slices of the pith of the papyrus plant, laying them side by side and pressing two layers together with their grains running at right angles. Professor Bataille thinks that no glue or paste was used; the natural sap of the fresh-cut pith made the layers stick together. Sometimes the hot-water treatment restores the sheets until they are almost as good...
...whole university is no longer a place for on-the-field training. The football schedule has been cut and athletic scholarships shrunk. Says Athletic Director Paul Stagg, Alonzo's son: "I'm riding a very thin line at present...
Slice & Spin. Just as they cut tiny pieces of human tissue into microscopically thin slices to study the progress of disease, pathologists tend to slice up their own specialty. One main branch is called anatomic pathology, and its devotees concern themselves with structural changes in tissues, usually seen at autopsy. But it is also the anatomic pathologist who examines the piece of tissue from a patient still on the operating table and tells the surgeon whether or not it is cancerous...
Gaulle was dramatically evident at some of the agricultural centers on his tour. At Orange, the crowd in the Place Georges Clemenceau was as thin and spiritless as the local vin ordinaire. At Les Beaumettes, another scheduled stopover, the general was greeted by empty streets and shuttered windows, and sternly decided to drive...
...chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely needs more foreign financing for industrialization-and hopes to get it through casting its lot with Europe...