Word: slenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
...This Corner: Slender, snowy bearded George Bernard Shaw, vegetarian friend of James Joseph Tunney...
Ruggiero Ricci, like famed Yehudi Menuhin, 13 (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928), is a San Franciscan and a pupil of Louis Persinger. Unlike Yehudi, he is neither chubby nor Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years...
Monday?"Baron Subkoff was here for dinner. He appears to be a most interesting young man?slender, dark and good-looking. He is very intelligent, and I shall continue to invite...
...witness John Harvard and the Bull Dog play their game, not only for supremacy in strength, but supremacy, in sportsmanship. Others are in the flush of expectation that comes from the first experience. Across the Lars Anderson Bridge the crowd pours like sparkling champagne down the stem of a slender glass...