Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothespegs, stacks of magazines, stacks of books. I looked everywhere for an English magazine and found, tucked away in a corner, the Strand. I couldn't believe my own eyes. I did not know what had happened to it or to the world, it looked so poor, so thin and shabby. I bought, but not without misgivings, the huge Sunday edition, some comics for my children, and a strange-looking newsmagazine called TIME. Still, I was sad and disappointed; those papers felt unfamiliar in my hands. When I came home I put them on my table and cocked...
...Green also has the edge along the line in experience and speed. The thin Red Line of Harvard has played alert and some times ferocious ball according. Tribe scout Elmer Lampe. But usually tires in the second half it should crumble before the power of men like Paul Staley and Tom Eberle...
Four scalps have fallen to Dartmouth's unbeaten soccer team; the Crimson is smarting after its less to Army thin should add up to a good scrap when the teams meet today at Hanover...
...City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy mines off Palau, Okinawa, the Philippines and Normandy...
...afraid of being taken in and afraid of being left out; the lazy sponger with an uncanny eye for the latest thing in letters who privately believes that modern writing is "so rotten that it may be good, in a rotten way"; the scraggly poet with "a thin virgin beard" who preaches that "the true decadent has no modesty...