Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Halliday then related several curious incidents while carefully drawing a thin black line, darkening his eyebrows. "When the killing occurred in a New York performance a real doctor considered it his duty to try and save the wounded man's life; he left the stage as pale as a sheet and got a terrific race from the audience...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...
...small black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
After his release, which had cut six years from his ten-year term, the old man went back to his young wife. Soon they separated; Captain van Schaick, a thin, rickety man, his face always lighted with a tardy and now unnecessary diligence, went about from place to place...
...exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most...