Word: slenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holmes, a slender, 39-year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...
...Following a modern poet up a mental slope carries real danger of getting hopelessly lost above the tree line of meaning. Lucid, logical John Ransom is not that kind of poet. Much of his poetry is as transparent as a weather report. As skillful in craft as he is slender in output, he can write movingly and hauntingly about the death of a small child, as in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
Standing in front of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the slender, highbrowed violinist found "my fingers cold . . . getting weaker and weaker." He was "submitting to an ordeal by fire in front of some half-hundred string players . . . come to . . . rehearsal with a decided 'show me' attitude." That December day in 1925, young Budapest-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti showed them-with the Beethoven Violin Concerto...