Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Lord Halifax's decision to accept the post was hard. It was a wrench to be sent out of the thick of things, to be made responsible to some young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together...
Last week, in the thick of these revelations, the Quartermaster Corps's Brigadier General Charles D. Hartman was relieved from duty. He was no scapegoat, said the War Department, but a man who was sick from overwork. Assigned to plug the holes in Army construction was the Corps of Engineers' Lieut. Colonel Brehon B. Somervell, who had done a standout job as New York City's WPA Administrator. Air Corps construction was snatched bodily away from the dusty, tape-bound Quartermaster Corps and handed over to the Engineers...
They both had good English accents. They carried papers to prove that they were Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...
Tectyl 511, which makes a film .0003 inch thick, is the kind that elbows aside sea water, was used to flush the Squalus. It worked so well that the Navy uses it now for a great variety of corrosion-fighting jobs...
...submitted a drawing to the Board of Education, the San Francisco Art Commission. Both asked for some changes, which he made. Then, at the suggestion of a WPA official who wanted to use up the remaining clay before it spoiled. Sculptor Johnson made a 31-ft. model. It showed thick-limbed athletes diving, throwing javelins, playing golf, leaping hurdles...