Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Attorney Leon Sin clair Jr., 13, who is tall, slender, brown-haired, and the "most avid reader" in his class, he is using our material to prepare a preliminary brief and has set out to get more information. In this quest he is working closely with the "defendant," a twelve-year-old seventh-grader of Italian descent, who has taken his role seriously enough to write to family relatives in Sicily and to Giuliano himself (no reply, as yet). Meanwhile, he is coaching his three witnesses in their testimony...
Wyoming's slender, shaggy-browed Joseph C. O'Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME...
...Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
...year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito, spoke a few words of caution. "I think this is the beginning of recovery," he said, "but there are still so many black-market millionaires in Japan that honest people have lost the will to work." Chichibu doubts that Japan's slender resources can support her huge and growing population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity with an abundance of everything from eggs to suspender buttons (TIME...
Nine years later, old Professor Shafer published a sprightly brief of his findings : The Ways of a Mud Dauber (Stanford University Press; $2.50), a slender (74 pp.) book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, "Crumple-Wing," of which Shafer was especially fond...