Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notices the thin black lines that divide one news story from another in a newspaper. But they stand as symbols of the disconnectedness of world events as they come to modern man in the course of a hurried day. Boxed off in their separate compartments, news stories only acquire a relatedness and significance when the black lines are crossed by a human mind...
Before judge and lawyers came prospective juror Mrs. Corrine English, dark, thin Nashua housewife. Mrs. English didn't feel that "I could sit in the jury to give a verdict ... I don't think I believe in mercy killing...
...Louis, founded the city's first Unitarian Church, as well as Washington University. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot could be a stern shepherd; one of his more memorable sermons was entitled: "Suffering Considered as Discipline." But young Tom Eliot's Irish Catholic nurse considered Unitarianism too thin a spiritual cloak against the cold winds of the world; she liked to take him along to her own church, a block away from the Eliots' red brick house on Locust Street...
...collected poems fill only a thin volume-he believes that a poet ought to write as little as possible-but they are as different from most other 20th Century poetry as the sound of bronze-pure bells from the shrilling of a telephone. An age which reads in a hurry and likes to understand familiar meanings with headline speed has accused Eliot of being obscure; much of his poetry does require close attention, but none of it is muddled and much of it is as catchy as a song...
...Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...