Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horrified servants watched as the Papal barouche, careening, bouncing, made the circuit once and then crashed splintering into a heavy stone portico supporting the stairs down which His Holiness was expected momentarily to descend. Blood spattered and gushed to form a thick, sluggish pool upon the flagstones. One of the Irish horses had been gashed and killed in the clattering impact. The barouche was thoroughly wrecked...
...symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor...
Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...Giants looked very much like men. The smallest was at least twice the size of any of the men in the Philosophers' Hall. They all glowered about rather stupidly from under thick eyebrows. And their lower jaws stuck out like the scoops of steam shovels. Their feet and hands were disproportionately huge. The fingers were shaped like clubs, without grace. Hair grew on the backs of the fingers and hands. The faces of those who were shaven showed many coarse wrinkles, like a harvested hay field...
...perhaps most "at home" when entertaining tycoons, on the 38th floor of the Bankers' Building on Chicago's Clark Street. He sits at one end of a large, glass-topped table, around which are nine straight-backed chairs. There are five windows,, softly curtained, and a thick soft carpet. Along one entire wall is hung a tapestry which reaches from ceiling to floor. Behind the tapestry, in a kind of recess, is a large and well equipped refreshment counter. Across the room from this counter is a large safe, containing money and other valuables. One door leads...