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Word: thinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEW FAULTS IN CURRENT LAMPOON, POWEL FINDS | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...there are, there are. I know several men who can do the Stare better than I. My Stare has never been what a should be. I can keep my eyes glassy, Yes, I can even do better than most Careful Greeters that exquisite expression of the thin, suddenly drawn-back lip. What was wrong I never suspected, but now--A professional secret, mustn't well. Honor bright...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

George Huddleston of Alabama, the South's only radical. A thin little wisp of a man who wears slippers in his office. He is given to vast and vociferous indignations. He is a fiery speechmaker. Pallid, drawn, hungry-looking, though personally wealthy. Professionally a lawyer who early threw his lot in with employes against employers in Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...skeleton was thin, undulating, crumbling. The shattered bones of the gangling creature stretched 26 feet; projecting from the body were four chipped, broken appendages. These, the paleontologists decided, had been paddles. They noted with delight that the creature had had three eyes, the third in the middle of its small, narrow head. They classified it as a plesiosaurus,* a marine reptile which perished in the waters covering the spot perhaps 100 or 200 million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-eyed Mariner | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...offers to advertisers a wide variety of display shapes. The lineage system is to be abolished, and all advertising based on fractions of a page, ⅔, ½, ⅓, ¼, 1/6, ⅛ (1/12), (1/24), If an advertiser wants to buy one-third page, he has his choice of a tall, thin space (one full column) or a square space (one-half of two columns). Thus, the flexibility of the Liberty scheme. Two-page spreads can also be purchased in several fractions and shapes, in rotogravure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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