Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solidly packed with sand, which is then baked dry to make a mold. A second mold is also fashioned, roughly one-eighth inch smaller than the original mold. The molds, shaped in halves, are placed one inside the other and then joined. Finally molten bronze is poured into the thin space left empty between...
...altitude record was set by Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum...
Durieux, a dark, natty, thin-faced Frenchman...
...Money for Dates. Bronx neighbors still remember the thin, dark-haired girl on the way home from school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some great researcher. Mamma again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else...
...matter until he begins analyzing Monsieur Martereau, a family friend-a steady, solid-seeming fellow who agrees to buy a house for the uncle. Martereau drives the young man to distraction by his oxlike simplicity. "Words are not for him what they are for me," the invalid muses, "thin protective capsules that enclose noxious germs-but hard, solid objects . . . it's useless to open them up . . we should find nothing." Gradually, the young man detects-or invents-complications; is Martereau a swindler? He forces subtleties on the unyielding surface of reality; an adulterer, perhaps? Having posed her enigma...