Word: thinner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
Alumni strength in the specialty events seems to run a bit thinner, but it looks to be about even with the Varsity. The Alumni should win the breaststroke, while Bill Drucker and Dick Harris should take care of the backstroke for the Varsity...
...expropriations, about the success of his regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish, beamed with vacuous amiability. There was not much clarification in the session, although it was Cárdenas' farewell address to his troubled nation. And in farewell he placed...
...Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases, the gentler, sun-warmed treatment of crucifixions, decapitations and flayings, gave Portugal's school a flavor...
...sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...