Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...
...into the water/ worked desperately to extricate the officer and mechanic in the cockpit. The latter, one Samuel Schultz, was easy to lift out, but the plunging engine had jammed the officer's leg, crushed in his chest. "Easy, boys," he said over and over in a dry, thin voice. Two hours later, in the Naval Hospital, he died-Commander John Rodgers, U.S.N...
...headlines in U. S. newspapers: "Vesuvius Again in Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last eruption of violence, in 1906. History knows of but two truly cataclysmic eruptions of Vesuvius-in 79 A. D. (reported by Historian Pliny); in 1631, when...
...delivered their choice. Forthwith last week Mahatma Gandhi, austere ascetic, Tolstoy disciple, famed Indian politico-spiritual leader, began to teach of Jesus, of the Apostles, of the mysterious Holy Trinity, of twenty centuries of ecclesiastical superstructure. They were glad when the Mahatma spoke of Jesus, but when his thin reedy voice told a harrowing tale of Christianity they were...
...reads The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux, The Spoilers, by Rex Beach, and makes no bones about his ignorance of philosophy. Pinochle is his favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey. A thin figure with splayed hands and a broken nose, he moves about the halls of his master's California house with the short, wary footstep that one learns in the ring. He and Dempsey teamed together in the days when trainmen booted them off freights. Those days are long...