Word: slenderness
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After being eight down and ten to go at the end of the first act, "Clubs Are Trumps", the new comedy at the Copley Theatre came to life in the later stages of the game, and was able to end up with a safe, but slender, margin of success. The authors, Leslie Bickson and W. Lee Dickson, failed to show any- thing like championship form until they had run up a big handicap against themselves...
...have ye Govermt of ye Society do already feel great Concern in yr Minds & have but uncomfortable Views of Mischief impending; wch yr fear they shall not be able to avert; by reason of many being necessitated to be so much & so far from their Constant Inspection, & ye Slender Authority ye College is capable of onpecting from ye Town...
...this tall, slender man with brown hair and blue-gray eyes is to go to Europe, is to become Agent General of Reparations. His new job will be bigger than any he has yet had. Through his hands will go all the reparations that Germany is to pay. He will be virtually in command of Germany's finances and at the same time the principal link, so far as reparations are concerned, between the Allies and Germany. Upon his shoulders will rest a fair share of the responsibility of operating successfully the Experts' Plan, and, let it be not forgotten...
What of this? Along its sluggish surface, one J. Padden, world's professional sculling champion, last week propelled himself and his slender shell fast enough to put six lengths between him and Alfred Felton, 1919 champion...
Sixth Day. The stage was set for two races. Imperturbable Paavo Nurmi (Finland) trotted forth, wiriest of the wiry, hard, slender and supple as a rapier. Carrying a stop watch in his hand to gauge his pace, he first loped 1,500, then 5,000 metres at a speed that broke all his followers' hearts and lungs, save Ritola's, who finished at Nurmi's shoulder in the second race. (Ritola had run 26,000 metres in five days. Nurmi had won twice within two hours...