Word: skim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale officials are proud of their saucer-bowl and they make sure it is well protected. A week before every Harvard-Yale game large details of policemen are assigned to patrol inside and outside the Bowl. Powerful floodlights skim the field to watch for pranksters...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
...time Sunday rolls in, the varsity baseball team should have parlayed a three-and-four record into four and-five for the season. Stuffy McInnis' nine meets the cream of the league, Princeton, at Soliders Field at 3:45 p.m. today, and the skim milk at Hanover tomorrow afternoon...
...reader who looks into the current Advocate must be prepared for some hard reading. He will have to devote considerable time and effort to the two verse plays which comprise the bulk of the issue; he will not be able, either, to skim through the two poems. Only the story and the article are entirely comprehensible on a first reading...
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