Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...slender Alexander Semenovich Panyushkin, 42, Soviet Russia's new ambassador to the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3). Ambassador Panyushkin was one of 1,164 passengers aboard the luxury Cunarder Mauretania. As far as the newsmen were concerned he might have been the only...
Matsukichi, a slender fellow with a long, egg-shaped face and large, gentle eyes, gravely told of the life that led him to crime. "I am," he said, "the child of my mother by some former connection of hers. I did not go too much to school." When he was 18, Matsukichi stole his boss's sandals and then some money. For this, he spent his first eight months in jail...
...daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
High Harpoon. When a tanker flies alongside a "receiver" (the plane to be refueled), the receiver lets out a slender line that floats behind in a graceful dropping curve. The tanker fires a kind of harpoon-gun, which shoots another line to tangle with the receiver's line. Clawlike devices on the two ends lock together. The receiver hauls in both lines. Next comes a fuel pipe filled with nitrogen gas to minimize danger of explosion. Then comes gasoline, flowing by gravity at 100 gallons a minute. The tanker can supply up to 2,000 gallons...