Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone its undergraduate sponsoring that removes tonight's presentation of the play "Porgy" from the rank and file of a long series of "Harvard nights." There have been "Harvard nights" at everything from the Pops concerts to "Good Morning, Dearie", and over many, though not all, has hung the thin and unwholesome haze of the box office...
...Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
...other water is an enormous shallow bay, spread like a thin shield across the North of Canada. Into this grey harbor also Hudson sailed; and here, after spending a winter on its frozen shore, he stayed to watch his ship, manned by a mutiny, putting back for England, leaving him and two companions to drown or freeze or starve. It is idle and unpleasant to imagine how the tireless captain accomplished death; it is possible, though, to imagine him as he must have looked, sitting in a small boat, listening to the slap of water on its gunwale, watching...
Clad in only a thin bathing suit, Eells walked over the bridge to the Weld Boathouse and, to the utter amazement of crew officials there, plunged right in. A delighted crowd of several hundred students greeted him on the other bank, while the Larz Anderson Bridge was jammed with automobiles of other spectators...
...Prince of Wales of that era. Raymond Hitchcock, who must date from at least 1860 himself, makes frantic and exceedingly long-winded attempts to inject humor into the proceedings. At times he succeeds admirably, but for the most part the humorous stretches are too long, and consequently far too thin...