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Putting his slender arms into rapid motion, Abe Goldstein dizzied and dazzled Joe Burman during eight of twelve rounds, was declared winner and champion, went to bed with kindly feelings toward Joe Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Dog | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

Upon Briggs' ability to return Wheeler's service will depend his apparently slender chances for the cup. His lofting and lobbing up to the present has been excellent and should cause his little trouble tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEELER TO FACE BRIGGS IN FINALS | 10/11/1923 | See Source »

...youth and slender grace are exactly what one imagines in the young Werther" is the remark of one news critic, while the same speaks a few lines later of the American's "warm, supple, and vibrant voice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER GLEE CLUB MEMBER NOW WITH OPERA COMIOUE | 10/3/1923 | See Source »

...between two and three billion years, based on a study of the rate of decomposition of radioactive elements. This is vastly greater than any previous estimate, modern geologists having ranged between 100,000,000 and 1,600,000,000 years in their conjectures. All these estimates rest upon very slender assumptions, but that the age of the earth is to be reckoned in hundreds of millions of years is a scientific certainty. Lord Rayleigh's estimate, if sustained, also revises the probable antiquity of man and the lower animals, indicating that the earth's crust has been capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Earth Grows Older | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...tiny monoplane weighs but 400 pounds without the pilot. Its wing, thick at the body and tapering to knife thickness at the outer edges, its short, slender fuselage, are the last word in lightness and aerodynamic efficiency. The machine has the appearance of a beautiful silver albatross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: French Flivver | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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