Word: thinnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless, the President, a man of much sly humor, was pleased with the country's surprise. He knew that as people began to learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase...
...Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week...
Ever tactful, the Beatissimus Pater bore in mind last week taut-waisted d' Annunzio's scorn of fat men when he despatched to him a communication anent the "monastery" : ". . . I will allow you ten monks picked from among the thinnest in all Italy...
...substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus...
...final curtain tremendous enthusiasm was evinced. The actors were called "20 times" amid deafening applause. The author, said to be the tallest and thinnest man in Sweden, "was forced six times to acknowledge the plaudits of the appreciative audience...