Word: slenderness
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...also a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo-amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries. In a day when most back-fields average 180 lbs., he is a slender 5 ft. 11 in., 171 lbs. He is a senior at a small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates have (and 40% of all Princeton undergraduates). He is an above-average student majoring...
...tall, slender man he chose as successor to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall...
About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
Behind the line-covered viewing screen is a "grid" of fine parallel wires, one wire for each group of phosphor lines. At the narrow rear end of the tube is a single electron gun that shoots a slender beam of electrons through the wire grid at the viewing screen. As in all television tubes, the electron beam scans at a rapid rate, painting an ever-changing picture on the screen of phosphors...
Over the last eleven years. Defense's Bob Lovett has held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names...