Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soon as we left St. Nicholas evidences that we were in close proximity to the battle-line crowded in on us thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early...
...College Office has received word that Lawrence Brokenshire '16, of Cambridge, has been killed by the poisonous effects of a gas bomb while fighting in the trenches near Ypres. Brokenshire left for the war last summer with the 12th Canadian regiment, and has been in the thick of the fighting ever since...
...Yale hockey team will start practice tomorrow. The new arena at New Haven has been extensively improved, and arrangements are now being made to freeze a sheet of ice 200 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 10 inches thick...
...effect that the volume has grown much smaller and yet the price raised. The Student Council deemed it expedient to raise the price from 75 cents to $1.00, in an attempt to make the book more nearly pay for itself. The real reason for the volume appearing less thick than last year is due to a much thinner quality of paper being used, although leaving out the College Directory did, of course, somewhat decrease its size...
...nomination for state senatorship," said Professor Hart. "Progressives apoligize neither for their existence, their principles nor their platform. They are doing just what the Republican party did in 1856. Harvard professors have occasionally been candidates for office, and in this campaign many college teachers and officers are in the thick of it. Professor Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia was a leading figure among the Taft delegation from New York at the Chicago convention, and had a large influence on the Republican platform; a former professor of Princeton is closely associated with the Democratic presidential canvas. It is a good thing...