Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...
...Hotsy Totsy, sleek, brown speed boat owned by Victor Kleisrath: the Gold Cup race, at Montauk, L. I.; at an average speed of 53:59 m.p.h., slightly faster than her winning time last year...
...suggest that TIME gives to physical characteristics an emphasis entirely out of proportion to their importance. It matters not at all that Capone is sleek and fat, that Chiang is wasp-waisted and shrill-voiced, and that Hearst is big-nosed. These persons' importance is in their relationship and effect on humanity; and this relationship and effect does not arise out of physical characteristics...
Last week the sleek, fast, red & black plane darted from Roosevelt Field up to Harbor Grace, N. F. Forecast was poor visibility but favorable winds. Unafraid of blind flying, Endres & Magyar took...
...Pilsudski, spruce, sleek-bearded, is the little brother of big Marshal Josef Pilsudski, walrus-mustached Dictator. Recently Col. Jan was made Finance Minister (TIME, June 8) and people wondered what he would do-for Col. Jan had had no previous fiscal experience whatever...