Word: thinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lump is cancerous is to have a biopsy performed, usually as a surgical procedure. A surgeon removes the lump and it is rushed to the hospital's pathology laboratory. There it is frozen with liquid nitrogen and then, with a device called a microtome, sliced into sections thinner than onion skin for examination under a microscope. If the cells are cancerous, the surgeon will usually know in minutes...
...what is perhaps the most poignant scene in the movie, Cohen sits down with Duddy in the sauna of his country club and lectures him on the risks and pitfalls of the business world. Cohen's face is fatter, his eyes puffier, his hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine...
...that we're thinner; the main problem is our freedom. We want to get back to the world. Let them do everything...
...Thinner crusts can be found at Joe's Pizza at 1 Linden St., Three Aces on Mass Ave. near the Law School, and Harvard Pizza on Plympton St. (not to be confused with Harvard House of Pizza). Three Aces is rumored to have the closest thing to New York-style pizza in the vicinity of the Square...
...major banks went back up to 11¾%, an increase of one-fourth of a point. In theory at least, lower federal spending should reduce the pressure for still higher rates by lessening the need for the Government to borrow in competition with private borrowers for scarce funds. A thinner deficit should also ease inflationary pressures, which continue frighteningly strong. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel raised prices 5% to 15% for many products (U.S. Steel for the third time in seven weeks), and Chrysler boosted auto prices $60 a car, its fourth increase on the 1974 models...