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Important body changes have been made in the Chrysler 65 and 75, making them leaner of line, cathedral-like. The hoods are higher; the windshields are made of non-shatterable glass (Triplex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motors, Models | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...lean face, whittled, leaner by anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that Tilden threw down the balls he had been about to serve with and lifted a lean face, whittled leaner by anxiety and irritation, toward the yelling, jostling hooligans in the stands. The umpire besought order; the noise dwindled; again the sping-spung of balls became audible. Lott took the ninth game; the crowd did not whisper now. With wracking caution, Tilden brought the score to deuce. Another game for Lott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...photographed innumerable times for the press of the U. S., of Europe, was posed once more last week before a battery of cameras. She, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, had just won the women's tennis championship of France. She seemed browner than ever before. Her legs, still eloquent, were leaner. She played recklessly and, when she occasionally lost a point withheld her gesticulations. She defeated Miss Kathleen McKane of England, 6-1, 6-2; proceeded, with her partner, Mile. Vlasto, to win the women's doubles; and, with M. Brugnon, the mixed doubles-a total of three titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lenglen | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...panned out." Hindsight, now as previously, is much simpler than foresight. All the same, there was heard last week considerable criticism of the bankers and industrial leaders who last Fall predicted great prosperity this Spring. The Spring has come, but profits in most lines of industry are getting leaner each week; in some industries they have disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Apr. 28, 1924 | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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