Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very sensitive Cramer dry-plate about four inches long and 1.5 inches wide, was put, film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place...
Students are advised to wear thick rubber-soled tennis shoes or rubber-soled "sneakers" with cork soles inside...
...might add, however, if space can be allowed me, that it is difficult for Western Harvard Alumni Associations to become strong so far from the inspiring influence of the University. The graduates are not so thick as about Boston and they find it hard to keep in touch with the spirit of their Alma Mater unless they have some direct message from Cambridge itself. The uniform effect of the coming of the musical clubs or of President Eliot to a western city is to gather together the Harvard alumni and to revivify the Harvard Club of that part...
...words that flowed thick from his muddled brain...
...forget Yale, and make ready for Pennsylvania. The eleven will be on Jaris this afternoon at half past two to practice, and every student in Cambridge ought to be there to cheer them. Let us show them that we appreciate their work, that we are with them through thick and thin, and that, come what may, we are true sons of Harvard...