Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During last week's commencement exercises at Fisk University in Nashville, slender Mary Greta Howard, 23, got her reward for two years' graduate study: a master's degree in race relations. Her academic record was topnotch, but she enjoyed an even rarer distinction. All but three of Fisk's 800 students are Negroes. Mary was the first white student to get a Fisk degree since the 1890s and one of relatively few whites who have earned a degree from a Negro college...
...trouble forgetting that the Japanese had holed up in that very spot for a last-ditch stand during the liberation of Manila in World War II. But such memories were soon drowned by roars of approval for the Japanese performances. One of the stars of the meet was a slender (5 ft. 4 in., 116 lbs.) 19-year-old Japanese girl named Atsuko Nambu, who won the 100-meter event, placed second at 200 meters and in the broad jump, and anchored...
...founded Belize's St. John's College in 1896 and taught Roman Catholic trade union-i§m in extension courses begun in 1947. The P.U.P.'s trade-union twin, the Gener al Workers Union, is an outgrowth of these courses, and George Price, the slender 35-year-old descendant of slaves who runs both outfits, is a St. John's graduate and a Catholic. Say the priests: "If we hadn't stepped in, the Reds would have." One result of their work is that the P.U.P. is very friendly...
...Joseph L. McAndrew, 38, a slender housewife from Watch Hill, R.I., had her eleventh successful Caesarean operation (a world record, A.M.A. archives indicated) in 14 years of marriage. Ten children are living; one was killed in an auto accident...
...days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a customer in a Detroit sa loon pointed at a slender, mustached young stranger and shouted: "That's John Wilkes Booth!" The stranger promptly drew a revolver, clouted the first man at hand and drove his boot into the belly of another. Then he backed out the door and dashed to the ferry. By putting his revolver to the ferry captain's head, he persuaded him to get started at once. Once on the Canadian side, he apologized for the "inconvenience," gave the captain $5 and walked...