Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women were glad: Mrs. Nicholas Roerich, mother and wife of the men, had had the stamina to accompany them through five years of privation. Last week at Darjeeling she was still weak from starvation, long marches, high climbing, winters in thin tents. Two other women had endured with...
Throughout the voyage Mr. King and Mr. Kellogg chummed over demitasses in one or two of the five Art Moderne bar rooms, dined in one another's suites, paced the broad sun deck, and appeared to share a taste for those thin little pancakes blazed with spirits in a chafing dish, which are so favorably known as crêpes Suzettes...
...Watches. Thin, with gold or platinum dials...
...Aluminum Co. of America using three other suggested methods of shielding base metals against corrosives with aluminum. One of these is mightily to press thin sheets of aluminum against sheets of steel. Workability here is limited. Germans are using this process in a semi-commercial way. Another is to heat iron and steel in contact with aluminum. This calorizing process (exploited by Calorizing Co. of America at Pittsburgh, a General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric...
...with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing that they are always watching, perhaps with poisoned arrows drawn, may without difficulty become crazed with fear. The few whites who claim familiarity with Congo Pigmies have reported that these four-foot folk not only claim to be descended...