Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick of "dull" Palo Alto. Presto, X is on the phone to a close Yale friend, who jumps at the chance to sabotage those "upstart Californians." Yale grabs Stanford's Z-precisely what Z himself hoped for when he told Minnesota's Y his troubles. In return, thin-blooded Y may well quit frosty Minnesota to take over Z's job at sunny Stanford. Both Y and Z knew, of course, that Stanford would not tempt X, who is quite happy working for Harvard because it allows him to spend most of his time in Washington...
...statistics deceive. Clark and Krumbein are thin and can be pushed around, but Baugh is rugged. Actually Szachara can rebound as well as any of them, and also scores and sets up plays. He leads the scorers, with Baugh close behind. The Big Red has several good sophomores on the bench
...Metropolitan District Commission policemen used a boat yesterday at 8:45 a.m. to rescue a dog from thin ice on the Charles near the Weeks Bridge...
...archaeologists at Les Eyzies are excavating with a technique more precise than any ever used at a prehistoric site. They are peeling back the thin occupation layers, one by one, and recording the type and exact location of every artifact within each strata. The archaeologists thus obtain a picture of the distribution of flint tools, animal bones, and other remains, in time and space. They can study how the form of a flint knife, for example, slowly changed during thousands of years. And they can determine, for each period of pre-history, where, within the camping site, such tasks...
...places, two parallel trenches are dug, about ten feet apart and three feet wide. These slices reveal the earth layers piled on top of one another, and the digging--a chore which falls on trained college and graduate students--proceeds horizontally from one trench to the other, one thin layer at a time. The digger usually pokes his way along with a large screw driver bent into a right angle. Occasionally he uses a spatula-like tool to skim off the dirt. As the work proceeds boards are placed down to prevent damage to the underlying stratum...