Word: slenderness
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...friends. Their friendship is symbolic of a new bond which is growing between Protestants and Catholics throughout the Reich, where heretofore the two creeds have been divided as in few other lands by bloody memories of the Thirty Years' War. When 30 Confessional pastors were arrested in Prussia, slender, steel-nerved, aristocratic Count Konrad von Preysing, Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, directed that prayers for their safety be offered in every church of his diocese...
...that Mr. Ramspeck had done last week was to win a final victory for the civil service over the spoils system. It came about because a slender, well-dressed Congressman from Decatur, Ga., Robert Ramspeck, 50 years old, looking 35, is a mild, gentle, quiet man who doesn't know when he is licked...
About a dozen hardy looking schuss-men showed up for the first practice of the season with their long slender cross-country boards carefully waxed with Skare for the occasion, but the captain, Del Ames '42 was detained in the north woods by good snow conditions, and last year's captain, Tom Winship '42, got bogged down in a Boston ski shop...
Doctors have not yet ruled Loren MacKinney out of the Yale contest, but his chances of seeing service are becoming increasingly slender. He was able to walk about the field yesterday and may be able to jog in a day or two. But the best he can hope for is to have his injured leg respond to treatment quickly enough for him to run by Saturday. In any event, he will miss a week's practice and undoubtedly will not start against Yale...
...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...