Word: thinnest
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...payments deficit seems trivial; it has averaged a mere 0.004% of the gross national product. But the dollars thus placed in foreign hands now total $34 billion, while the U.S. stock of gold has dwindled from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion to $10.4 billion last week, the thinnest gold line since 1936. If all the dollar holders demanded gold at once, there would be too little in Fort Knox to satisfy even a third of them. Already whetted, the speculative appetite for gold was only sharpened by the fall of the British pound last November...
...tilting their chromosome specimens, which were taken from a human white blood cell, the German scientists were able to get a side view and measure their thickness-about four-millionths of an inch at their thinnest, center portion and ten-millionths at the thickest part of their "limbs." In Britain, where scientists at St. George's Hospital Medical School are also using scanning electron microscopes to examine chromosomes, the resulting photographs have suggested that chromosomes have an underlying fibrous structure. From these and other scanning electron closeups, scientists hope eventually to gain new insight into the complex processes...
...distribute books published by Bernard Geis, refused to handle it. Some say this happened because Cerf and Sinatra are friends. But Cerf has an even better reason. "This represents the sleaziest kind of publishing there is," he says: "Books that vilify a celebrity, living or dead, under the thinnest of fictional disguises. One or two such books have sneaked on our lists in past years.* But as long as I'm here, I can promise it won't happen again...
Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease-the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples...
...contrast. Harvard is 1-4, with only 7-5 win over M.I.T. to brag about. to midfielders Dexter Newton and Marry Van Oudenallen have hurt the at its thinnest position. Capitain Gates was hurt in the M.I.T. game. Though veterans Dick Ames and Ted have been impressive, the attack has been inconsistent; the seven goals against M.I.T. were the most the Crimson a scored this season...