Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Greg was very thin, and his white skull seemed to be almost visible through the thin layer of skin. In looking at him, one might entertain the fancy that he was a life-like statue. Once a student had said that during his visit with Professor Greg he had somehow felt like posterity itself being able to talk with the living past. He had also said that listening to Professor Greg was like being inland and lying in bed at night listening to the subdued roar of the ocean. This latter remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg...
...John Hall and Charles Ford, were new appointees with brand new Ph.D.'s and with serious plans for their own scholarly achievements. Both men were tall and thin, and both were blond. If a colleague in another department did not know them very well, he might even have mistaken one for the other. During a department meeting, Hall had got up and made a brief but rather passionate speech about Professor Greg, saying he was world-renowned, how proud he was to be teaching a course that Greg had once taught, and how indebted to him everyone in their profession...
Actress Myrna Loy, 53, once the Thin Man's perfect wife, announced a separation and the coming end of her fourth marriage. Since 1951, she has been the wife of Howland H. Sargeant, 47, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs when she married him, now heads the Manhattan-based, anti-Communist American Committee for Liberation...
Most famed are Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...
...lone tackle football game, Dunster overpowered the thin Dudley squad...