Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict with 32a. 65b new course, very interesting. 19 well worth work. 22a: good, lots of work and reading; not for Sophomores. 32a and b: lots of work, detailed; probably best history course in college. 34a: lot of reading, but not quizzed; rather easy; interesting. 2: good; too thin for divisionals; lot of reading, but not hard. 45b: all in text; exams dull...
...Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...thin book, and one wishes it were even thinner, for Mr. Parson's verse sometimes betrays another characteristic of young men's verse: an ineptitude with, and reliance upon, adjectives. Yet his average is high, and his best poems are those that are consistently good; his unevenness is confined mostly to the shorter lyrics. He is at his best in the sonnet -- there are a dozen that are really good...
With such pleasantries Philadelphia's famed book collector and rich electrical equipment manufacturer, Alfred Edward Newton, 73, filled a thin little book called Newton on Blackstone which last week reached reviewers from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Purpose of the book: to perpetuate for his friends the remarks made by witty Mr. Newton when the University of Pennsylvania made him an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...Dean Weigle of the Divinity School, written when its faculty board was about to vote on Professor Davis's reappointment. The report quoted the following phrase from the letter: "I must say that I think Jerome is becoming an increasing nuisance and my patience is inevitably wearing rather thin...