Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richfield's big atomic bet is based on a chemical peculiarity: the molecular structure of Athabaska oil is such that, once thinned by heat, it flows indefinitely, whereas many heavy crudes thicken again in cooling. The spot picked by Richfield for its experiment has rich tar sand down to a depth of 1,000 ft. Then the underlying rock begins. If the A-bomb experiment works, the first small-scale (two-kiloton) detonation will be set off in the rock strata 1,200 ft. below the ground. Engineers expect that the bomb will create a huge cavity, and heat...
...nine-year-old boys fell through thin ice on the Charles River and drowned yesterday afternoon. The double fatality was the first of its kind this winter in the Cambridge area...
...thin, small, birdlike man, peering through heavy horn-rimmed glasses, was presented to reporters in West Berlin last week as the biggest spy catch in years. His name: Siegfried Dombrowski. His former job: deputy chief of East Germany's military espionage organization, innocently called "Administration for Coordination." Dombrowski, 42, told newsmen he had defected "several months ago," and brought with him long lists of agents and dispatches that he had turned over to the "proper Western authorities." The total East German apparatus, he declared, involved control of 60,000 agents, with 13,000 of his own agents working undercover...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...
...Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. A satiric jig danced on the thin skin of the Irish...