Word: slenderness
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...slender, upright physique, usually tall and [sometimes] has a symmetry and beauty of proportion that is aesthetically of the highest order." Dr. Sheldon found that many famous paintings of Jesus Christ represented...
Young Mr. Smith (he will get his M. D. next year) conceived the idea of slipping the severed ends of a blood vessel over a slender rod from opposite directions and sewing them where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break...
...enough, the secretary gave the astonished directors another: slim, knife-faced President Lammot, 59, had "reached an age where retirement is . . . incidental to desire for relief from responsibilities. . . ." But Lammot did not leave the company. He was quietly elected chairman of the board. Then the directors turned to a slender, broad-domed, greying man beside him: Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr., 52, long known as the Du Pont crown prince. He was elected president-the first non-Du Pont to head the company in nearly a century. Unlike his elder brother,* Walter Carpenter is not even a Du Pont...
...tall, slender old man with a well-brushed mustache and deep-set, friendly blue eyes, Dean Wigmore's passion for harmonizing the law of evidence is accompanied by a passion for just harmonizing. Words or music or both of nearly every song in the Northwestern Law School song book were his composition; he has also privately printed a book of songs called Lyrics of a Lawyer...
...towns below Narvik in Norway's long, slender, north-central neck, Allied landings were made to command the road (but no rail) connections into Sweden and the northern terminus of the one road into Norway's waist...