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...Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters...
...reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy, he is told: "You've grown thinner...
...call of the golden spade yesterday summoned alumni from Boston and New York to begin the second big push of the Program for Harvard College. About 500 area chairmen and captains returned to Cambridge to speak, to watch, and to listen, as the drive for the "thinner cats" began...
...object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both, the pilot will ease it down to a skid landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., 485 miles from Wendover...
...offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time as seen through an astigmatism-correcting lens. Where the cardinal had appeared elongated and distorted, he now appeared normal; where the cardinal had leaned forward...