Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen crews were able to row on the Charles today after the three coaching launches had spent the morning and the early part of the afternoon breaking up the thin sheet of ice formed by the last two days of cold weather...
...Morning Post, the leading London conservative newspaper, questions whether the bill would have progressed even so far had it been thought to have had a chance of final passage and had the proposer's popularity not been taken into consideration. The Daily Mail calls it "the thin edge of a prohibition wedge...
...took a twenty or thirty mile spin had his imaginative range broadened. He had less need to sit by the fire and read an imaginative book. By the time the motor car had ceased to be a novelty, the Great War came on, making all imaginative efforts seem thin and pale. Except to get away from the thought of violence it was almost difficult to read a novel between 1914 and 1918. By the time we were sick of war and its terrific drama, the motion picture came, also bringing the measure of stimulation. With all that can be said...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell, the new leading lady of the company, takes the over and makes it her own. To a part originally, one fears, somewhat thin, she gives character, color, and vivacity. Miss Bushnell's appearance on the stage is altogether charming, but she does not permit her charm to support unduly her acting, which is here a deft, easy characterization...
...solution of the problem is still out of sight. France has returned from a Christmas recess to enter a renewed "Conference of the Premiers" with the firm proposal to occupy the Ruber and the Rhineland. France has grown thin on German promises. She wants something more substantial, and it will take all the diplomacy which England and America can bring to bear to make her wait much longer for definite action on the reparations settlement...