Search Details

Word: thinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Mexico's custom of letting male prisoners have occasional visitas conjugates with their wives (or other women) was recommended for U.S. prisons last week by tall, thin, shy Sociologist Normal Sylvester Hayner of the University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex in the Calabozo | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Next day a Buenos Aires court issued a writ of habeas corpus for Mariquita. She left the ship (see cut, p. 27), telling news men in a thin, frightened voice: "They won't succeed. . . . Somehow I'll find a way to escape if they put me on board again by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: MARIQUITA'S BIRTHDAY | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...books that were small, cheap, popularly written. He supported himself through publishing, cleared $150,000 to spread his cause. Not all the 400 books he wrote or published were religious-one was Primitive Physick, a book of home remedies (example: "The Head Ake: Apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind of a lemon, newly pared off") that went through more than 40 editions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Ferrero, a tall, thin, professorial man with a white, Trotskyesque goatee, is now 70, has a daughter in the U.S. But he refuses to leave Europe. He feels that somebody must remain there to bolster the courage of Europeans who think as he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: L'Annado de la Paou | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1694 | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | 1699 | 1700 | 1701 | 1702 | 1703 | 1704 | 1705 | 1706 | 1707 | 1708 | 1709 | 1710 | 1711 | 1712 | 1713 | 1714 | Next | Last