Word: slenderness
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...When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
Most House basketball games in the last few days have been won by slender one, two, or three point margins. Dudley changed that trend yesterday afternoon by burying Eliot with a cannonade of 60 points against the Elephants' 20. The victory was the fifth in a row for Coach Bob Waite's commuters...
Like a Radio. The nerve cells are laced together, like the vacuum tubes inside a radio, by slender, wirelike fibers (neurofibrils). Some cells have only two fibers; others have several hundred. Like the cells, the fibers are electrically charged...
...Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...
Arthur Tyndall ("a slender man in a brown jacket and grey trousers") had to admit that he was a little disappointed with the University of Toronto. It seemed to have no real character. Was it nothing but a "facts factory"? Tyndall, who had come to Toronto to be warden of Hart House, wrote to a friend back in New Zealand: "I can't seem to make up my mind about this place. It [presents] a nice intellectual problem...