Word: thinness
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...core contracts, however, its internal pressures will rise, forcing the temperature rapidly back up again until the intense heat ignites the unfused hydrogen gas surrounding the core. The interior of the sun will now be hotter than ever, a dense core of incandescent helium surrounded by a thin shell of hot, fusing hydrogen. Over the next few hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become...
...appointment, the result of the English Department's international search for a medievalist, comes at a time when Harvard's coverage of the field "has gotten rather thin," Porte said...
...tall and thin, with curly blond hair cascading over his ears and neck, a mustache and a goatee, a thrift-shop tweed coat, a 1940s-vintage wool overcoat and a single earring. Britton will lead today's workshop on the fine points of piping technique. He is something of a phenomenon: only 26, he has been a master piper for a decade. He did have an unfair advantage: his father George was a folk musician and music teacher before it was fashionable and was a founder of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Song Society. Tim started on baritone ukulele before...
That scene may become painfully familiar in the months ahead as other developers find themselves stretched too thin to adjust to the new tax law. The National Realty Committee, which represents some 300 big U.S. developers, estimates that the changes required by tax reform will cost the real estate industry as much as $50 billion during the next five years. Under the old tax rules, real estate investors could shelter salary and other income with losses generated by limited partnerships. Kroh relied on such partnerships for as much as 20% of its capital, or some $20 million a year. Money...
...enters Hughes' movies. In real life, questioning the adolescent social structure usually ends in baffled hurt, not instructive triumph. When Hughes' characters and situations are intensely enough drawn (as in The Breakfast Club), one scarcely notices such manipulation. But Some Kind of Wonderful has not attained its full growth. Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness...