Word: thins
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Lightweight Co-Captain Clara Bui feels that the merger will lead to a greater potential for Radcliffe regatta sweeps. She expains that the lightweight eight competition is so thin that the Radcliffe team will probably beat any lightweight eight, despite the fact that the fastest lightweights are in the first lightweight four and JV openweight boats...
...army troops on patrol, wading rivers and riding horseback into remote areas. Sharing the soldiers' lot, Lopez has slept on the ground, in the back of an East German military truck and in insect- infested peasant huts. "Most recently," she says, "I stayed in a hotel with walls so thin you could see through them. That didn't bother the bats, which squeaked and dive-bombed my cot from the rafters all night long." Other TIME correspondents and editors have reported on Nicaragua's civil war from both sides. For this week's stories, Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly...
Beginning in about twelve months, new U.S. paper currency will contain a thin polyester stripe bearing the legend USA ONE for $1 bills, USA FIVE for $5 bills, and so on. Called a security thread, the stripe is transparent and will not reflect light. Thus it cannot be reproduced by a photocopier. Around the portraits on the new bills will be letters too tiny for copy machines to pick up that say UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...garden, and we discuss women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January 14 (1817). Dinner, with trivial conversation on the superiority of stout over thin women . . . January 15. I fetch the Imperial Almanac. The Emperor looks up the ages of his brothers. 'Josephine faked her age.' (He) looks at the names of the ladies of his court. He is moved. 'Ah! it was a fine empire. I had 83 million human beings under my government -- more...
THIS PLAY DOES get very thin. Stoppard's script is a lot like a Historical Studies A course: very didactic and superficial at the same time. And the play seems longer than the two-and-a-half hours of its duration. For persons who don't know much about any one of the three revolutionaries, some sections of Travesties might seem very long indeed, with the humor flying overhead like distant Swiss geese...