Word: skim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been buried among the want ads (e.g., Marilyn Monroe's divorce and the Sheppard trial) are now played with headlines and pictures on Page One. While trying to woo away readers who find the Times's heavy news diet indigestible, the Trib is also trying to skim off the upper readers of the tabloid News and Mirror. Three months ago, for the first time in its history, the Trib launched a prize contest, a $25,000 competition called Tangle Towns. It picked up 72,000 readers, jacking up the Trib's circulation to more than...
Flying in the face of dietary fads, reducing pills and skim-milk regimens, stirringly stacked (5 ft. 4 in., no Ibs.) Actress Janet (A Girl Can Tell) Blair, who feels 17, looks 25 and is 32, handed out an astonishing prescription for chubby ladies who starve themselves in vain. Advised she: "Try overeating. That's how I stay slim. By eating as much as the average man, a woman gets the energy she needs to burn up her fat. Heavens! You're too weak to do it on a starvation diet. Shovel down big helpings...
...handling the long-haul shipments that wear out truckers' equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that piggybacking will boost its gross $80 million a year. To motorists, piggybacking is also good news; it should remove many truck trailers from the roads...
Charles G. Kadison, Jr. '55, President of Ivy Films, objected to the U.N. Council's policy. "By showing just two or three films they skim the cream off the top of the campus film industry," he declared...
...carefully followed and lab-tested for two years or more. This diet is not extreme or hard to follow, since it may include as much as two ounces of fat a day. The doctors exclude butter, cream, fatty meat, egg yolk and cheese. However, they let the patients have skim milk...