Word: slenderness
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...capillary constriction, men and women sat bolt upright with their hands stretched over a table high as their chests. Pointed at the transparent flesh around the finger nails was a special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco at all. But no smoker could see what brand he was to puff...
...afternoon last week a handful of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists gathered on the private airport of Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green at Round Hill. Mass. On a scaffold 30 ft. over their heads, a 100-ft. length of slender pipe pointed a battery of nozzles across the field. The sun set and the dusk thickened. All eyes were turned toward Buzzards Bay, where a bank of fog was rolling inland. The men had been waiting for fog for days...
...obscure California schoolteacher sat down at his desk one day last week, flicked on his pince-nez and proudly put his name to a contract which soon was advertised all over the U. S. In Manhattan a slender Irish girl of 20 bubbled to reporters: "I'm thrilled to the ears." From his murky backstage office at the Metropolitan Opera, big, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza had just announced his plans for next season...
...after day last week until perspiration rolled down their faces and their slender grey-haired director was ready to drop, 100 students at the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J., sang praises to God. They were preparing for this week's commencement, to be followed by an ambitious two-day music festival. This year, above all others, they wanted to show what they could do. Their choir was building a reputation as the best choral organization in the U. S. And it had undertaken Bach's B Minor Mass, a stiff test for seasoned professionals. Besides...
...slender, grey-haired conductor, a pious wealthy woman and a Dayton, Ohio church which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing...