Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most are too long (the shorter the better, but 20 in. is a practical maximum), too large (internal diameter should be no more than 3/16 in.), and made of thin-skinned rubber...
...feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes are artificial and the nudes ambiguous. As for the design -applied calligraphy...
...most accessible part of the earth's interior is at the ocean's bottom, where the crust is thin. Project Mohole, the U.S. attempt to reach the boundary layer between the earth's crust and mantle by drilling off the coast of Mexico, so far has penetrated only ordinary, surface-type rocks. Last week, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported far better success with another method. From the fractured north wall of the Puerto Rico Trench, its research ship Chain has dredged up the first samples of "third layer" rock ever gathered...
...column and clinched his hairbreadth victory.) The two men, soon joined by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, sat on the bed and mulled over the early-morning statistics. There were no congratulations, no jubilation: the three were much too tired, and Kennedy's triumph was much too thin. Afterward, the President-elect waved his aides away and retired to his bathroom to shave, with a straight razor. In such homely fashion the great political drama of 1960 came...
...miles before blossoming, folded its petals only after it dropped within 65 miles of the earth's surface. When it finally landed, Physicist Robert K. Soberman of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory hoped to find a few micrometeor punctures in the three-layer sandwich of thin Mylar film and Plexiglas that lined the Aerobee's dust catchers. What he actually found was something quite different: during each second of exposure, some ten meteorites had hit each square centimeter. Most of the holes were microscopic, but a few could be spotted with the naked eye. The larger particles...