Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin, high, outer fringe of the atmosphere, the Fort Monmouth men explained, the atoms of gas are ionized by solar ultraviolet light into positively charged nuclei and negative electrons. Theory suggested that at a certain altitude above the earth this charged plasma should have a sort of elasticity that would permit hydromagnetic waves to pass along it, rather like mechanical waves traveling along a coil spring. The Fort Monmouth scientists found that the Argus explosions started just such waves in a layer of plasma about 1,500 miles high. The waves were about 1,000 miles long, and they traveled...
...help it can get from Singer Carol (West Side Story) Lawrence and Howard (Kiss Me Kate) Keel. The 19th century high jinks between a New Orleans mulatto and a Montana buccaneer bent on robbing some robber barons is "rich in production," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, "fortunate in its leads, thin in story." The Bulletin was briefer: "Moby Dick in a bathtub...
...knowing sparrow of a man, Bouché often asks the glamorous and important to pose for his thin-stained canvases, gives them a drawing for their pains. Bouché's technical equipment, like that of John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini, is not prodigious, but exactly suits his ends. He may well rank with those past masters of social portraiture. Bouche is not one to portray the bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome...
...overture to Il Re Pastore (K. 208) by the 19-year-old-Mozart opened the program, and the orchestra played this delectable trifle crisply enough, though the same strings that were so impressive in the Bach sounded rather thin here. Even early Mozart can stand a good 25 violins. But Mr. Harbison has done good work with his players, making their attacks sharp, their rhythm excellent, and even raising the level of intonation. There is reason to expect more good things from the orchestra...
...Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in his eye. The soft sell has replaced the hard...