Word: slenderness
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...cold February morning in 1946, a slender, bespectacled young man walked into the University of Texas registrar's office and applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a Houston mailman who had graduated from a small Southern college, was qualified in every respect but one: he was a Negro. He was the first who ever tried to enter the University. He was turned down flat...
...dates every night of the week should not cause any upheaval in planning. On the positive side, the House Masters have a chance to do something about their worry that the veteran is turning Harvard into an academic ivory tower. The same veteran who finds his GI bankroll too slender to allow dinners in Boston would be likely to take a social turn of mind if his House didn't shun any extension of its facilities to include women more frequently. Here the question of coeducation rears its ugly head. But at Radcliffe girls are allowed to have guests...
Every year about this time the University issues a catalogue of the courses to be offered during the following academic season. With the help of this slender booklet, instinct, and whatever odd knowledge he may have chanced to acquire over the lunch table, the student must make out his program for the next term. The nature of the catalogue is such that instinct and odd knowledge provide most of the guidance until the actual opening of classes, when many students shop for courses, jam into already over-crowded lecture halls, and deluge University Hall with a waterfall of petitions...
...hosts found her almost suspiciously normal, a slender, friendly woman of 40 who seemed as unaffected as her correspondence. Green-eyed Mollie was no brittle careerist but a woman who, besides working for the New Yorker, was her' own housekeeper, did her own canning...
...Paris, the poor huddled in the metro and the rich, wearing overcoats, huddled in the Crillon bar. The statuesque stone Zouave emerging from the Seine at the Pont de l'Alma wore a girdle of solid ice around his midriff. The soft silk draped around slender mannequins at Molyneux's, Lanvin's and Worth's felt as cold as the Zouave's ice. The Paris Models' Union announced that the wages for its members posing nude in unheated studios would be upped 30? an hour, effective "as soon as the model complains of chair...