Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet airman, took a trip in an aeroplane over the Alps to Paris. The French were so excited that they sent 24 battle plans to greet him. Since then he is reported as having literally vanished into thin air. No trace of him can be discovered, although it is hoped that he has only had a forced landing in some remote place...
...real American art. Mr. Dooley will be forced to give up the magazines completely. "What I object to", he says, "is whin I pay tin or fifteen cents for a magazine, expectin' to spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds...
...French are famous for their beautiful manners, but it is not entirely out of politeness that they have drawn 350,000 francs from their thin purses to erect a monument to American volunteers. The money has not come from the government, as a mere ingratiating gesture. It has come from individuals who are personally grateful to the Americans who joined the cause before the United States entered the war. At the same time it has the dimensions of a national gift, for aside from the premiers and ex-premiers. Marshals of France and cabinet members who have contributed, every regiment...
...point where modern inventions could be usefully applied, they intend to thrust electricity and airplanes on peasants who are terrified by a rumored collision with Jupiter. And instead of increasing their nucleus of educated men by putting their universities on a sound financial basis, they seek to spread a thin coating of information over the masses by means of isolated lectures. Meanwhile, conditions in the universities have resulted in a student suicide wave which may easily rob future Russia of the few trained men who might otherwise be available...
Professor E. C. Moore '03, chairman of the Board of Preachers and of the American Board of Foreign Missions, will give his fifth and last weekly lecture on subjects dealing with the situation in the Near East thin evening from 7.30 to 8.30 o'clock in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House. He will consider not only the religious and philanthropic but also the educational and historic phases of this subject...