Word: slenderness
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...Slender Junior Bob Graves provided the finishing touches of Crimson to the sixth annual New England Intercollegiate golf tournament on the Oakley Country Club course late Saturday afternoon by posting a splendid 70-71--141 to spread-eagle a 32-man field and take the individual crown in a walk...
...dresses with conservative elegance, never goes out without a slender walking stick, which he manipulates expertly, accenting the delicacy of his beringed hands (he has a passion for rings). His voice is soft, rich and low with a gentle, melancholy brogue. He is rather vain of his tenor, which he likes to join with his son's bass at small family celebrations...
...first two men, big 190 lb. Ace Cordingly and slender Bob Graves, are now Juniors and have played together since their Freshman year. Cordingly, only recently recovered from a football injury, in the Big Bertha of the outfit and Graves' long, well-balanced game belies his weight. Last summer, Cordingly climaxed a summer of golfing wars by finishing as low Amateur in the Iowa State Open...
Readers' first question about They Still Say No will be: How does it compare with the early novels of Sinclair Lewis (the author's father)? Sinclair Lewis' only child by his first wife, Wells Lewis, 21, a senior at Harvard, is a slender, sandy-haired, better-looking but less vigorous, less radical edition of his father...
...trap, a native of North Carolina, was called by the great Charles Darwin "one of the most wonderful in the world." It has a two-lobed leaf which, while waiting for prey, stands open like a gaping clam shell. From the edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands on the upper surface . . . come into...