Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
...have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...
...City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck the water. The passengers were dashed to the floor. Heavy baggage in a rear compartment smashed through a thin partition and clumped upon the passengers. Struggling desperately, four passengers, the pilot and mechanic kicked and tore their way out of the fuselage. They went back in and tried to haul the baggage off the others. As they worked the seven drowned. It was the fifth worst accident...
...steel. Tin, contrary to common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough for 18,500 square inches of tinfoil...
...French Who's Who yet record, went ahead of him to a few artists and mystics. They formed a circle which widened. Money came to Nicholas Roerich and his hopes. His acolytes created for him Corona Mundi (Crown of the World) International Art Centre, and gathered together a thin frame of art from all nations of the earth...