Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report guessed guardedly at reasons for these changes: the War had popularized Science and overcrowded the medical profession. The expansion of industry was making Law a greater field. The ranks of the theologians were thin because more young men are seeking "liberal" careers...
Denver. Ray Stevenson, 36, 6 ft., 165 lb., thin brown hair, two bullet scars on right shoulder, wanted for bank robberies at Denver and at Englewood. Reward: $1,500. Warning: "Desperate bank robber...
...thin-lipped little Yorkshireman with the cold, drawn face of a stone gargoyle?that was Right Honorable Philip Snowden, Chancellor of His Britannic Majesty's Exchequer, as he bristled and battled last week at The Hague. What he wanted was for twelve nations to reopen the question of how German reparations are to be divided among the creditor powers. That question was closed at Paris (TIME, May 13. et seq.) when the Young plan was drafted by the countries' foremost financiers. In presenting their handiwork to European statesmen. Owen D. Young and his colleagues described it as "an indivisible whole...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
Briefly, the sale of Youth's Companion was explained last week by its publisher. Donald B. Snyder: "We got a good price. The consolidation is particularly effective because the juvenile has a thin market and it was inevitable that one of the big two should take over the other. It so happened that American Boy met our price...