Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principal battles, to be sure, Democratic victories were predictable. Unpredicted, however, was the way they won against frequently paper-thin Republican opposition. In New York City, Mayor Robert Wagner crushed G.O.P. Opponent Robert Christenberry by a plurality just under the 1,000,000 that Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio had predicted for him, catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican...
Solids to the Fore. To be used in liquid-fueled rockets, both fuel and oxydizer must be liquid and thin enough to be pumped rapidly. This rules out promising materials, e.g., boron itself and many of its compounds, that are not liquid at ordinary temperatures. One way around this difficulty is to grind them finely and mix them with a liquid carrier to form a paintlike slurry. The most radical way is to burn them as solids with a solid oxydizer. Through this technique, a long list of new high-energy materials can be used...
...Hour. Wiry, thin-lipped Gene Grace first showed his competitive drive while working for pennies in his father's Goshen, N.J. general store. He saved enough to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was class valedictorian ('99) and captained the baseball team for two years. Just before graduating as an electrical engineer, he had two job offers-one from the Boston Braves, the other from small Beth Steel. Grace calculated that a career as shortstop would end at 35 at best; so he went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from...
Maurice Chevalier can still romp through the part of the French lover. His hair is getting thin, and he doesn't show too well in closeups, but these are minor objections. His enthusiasm for this familiar role seems undiminished, his girls are as beautiful as ever, and My Seven Little Sins has the great virtue of not taking itself too seriously...
...situation of the Count--trying to make love to these girls, and being stopped by the paternal instinct, is at first quite amusing, but wears thin as more and more daughters turn...