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...dislike intensely the way I look," said Columnist Dorothy Thompson to an interviewer. "I cannot bear it! But I haven't the character to get thin. Getting thin is a life in itself. I can't integrate it with my life...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...
Anti-personnel mines are a development of World War II. French patrols during the "phony" war of 1939-40 went out and never returned. Several patrols were thus annihilated before it was found that the Germans had strung thin wires through no man's land. Thereafter, the French patrols drove cattle and pigs ahead of them. Says Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Thompson, U.S. authority on land mines: "As long as the supply of animals holds out, the method has its points. Its efficacy is indicated in German reports describing the odor of decaying swine flesh which pervaded the Arndt...
...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...
...Langers had tea for breakfast and, being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...