Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bullard preference for Lucky Strikes promptly faded into thin air and the General returned to the limbo of the National Security League...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
...information desk. He was a thin, hunched little old man, who peered at questioners through heavy glasses...
Taking advantage of the fact that the thin coat of ice on the Charles had sufficiently melted the University and Freshman crews took to the water again yesterday, the University crews under the guidance of Coach E. J. Brown '96 and the Freshmen under Coach H. H. Haines...
...makers are the Hershey Chocolate Co., the Walter Baker Co. (Postum subsidiary) and the Blumenthal Bros. There are five Blumenthals, Joseph, Meyer, Aaron, M. I., and Jacob; but Joseph, the president, is more potent than his brethren. Last week he bustled busily over the Exchange. He is a small, thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market. The main plant...