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...Menzel continues to point out that the hypothetical dust cloud which enveloped the earth was thicker at some places than at others. When the world passed through a thick mass of dust, the earth experienced fairly warm weather and the tropics probably flourished. Then as the planet passed into thinner areas, the earth would grow cold and led packs formed...
...genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage. And so on. Such busy plotting would barely skin by in a play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture is good enough to pass an idle hour. It ambles from one easy, half-developed comic idea to another, with few serious dead spots between. Typical gags: Johnson and his publisher (Hume Cronyn) fouled up in an Indian...
...nebula-dotted universe is finite, what lies beyond it? Robertson does not know. Perhaps, he admits, there may exist, far off in some medium that is thinner than space, still other universes. But each, presumably, is sealed in its own bubble of space, the light from its stars circulating endlessly, never escaping to reach our astronomers' telescopes. Scientists, briskly dusting their hands of other universes, say that if they exist, they must be penetrated by "nonphysical means...
...little thinner than last year's giant, but still quite virile, the Varsity track team will get its first formal test of the season at West Point this afternoon in a triangular meet with Army and Princeton...
That thin sliver of extra speed cost enormous effort. The P-80R, though designed as a practical military airplane rather than a souped-up racing job, is a refinement of Lockheed's P-80 (Shooting Star). It has a thinner, broader wing, a smaller canopy than the original model. Its Allison 400 turbojet engine develops a take-off thrust of 4,600 Ibs. Half of this tremendous power is soaked up in attaining the last 70 m.p.h...