Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slender and mild-mannered man, with a Boston twang and a lively spring to his step. Everybody knew him all right: he was James Bryant Conant, the first Harvard president ever to give a course at the summer school. What happens when a president turns professor? By last week, his students agreed that U.S. faculties would do well to have more men like Teacher Conant...
...prove that their anti-Communist actions are as good as their intentions, Indonesian Republicans wound up a busy week (see above) by announcing the execution of Moscow-trained Tan Malaka, the slender, smooth-skinned Indonesian Communist leader who had ungraciously refused to comply with at least four previous Republican reports of his death...
When Patton got on the blocks for the 100-yard final, athletes from 75 colleges paused to watch the great sprinter run his last hundred for the University of Southern California. At the gun, Patton uncoiled like a spring, his long, slender legs pumping, with Stanfield right beside him in an adjoining lane. In the last 20 yards, Patton pulled away enough to win by a yard in 9.7 (slow time compared to the world record 9.3 he hung up last year at Fresno, Calif...
From Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link...
...purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...