Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ethiopia, from a pale olive among the northern inhabitants, through deep brown in the central part of the Kingdom to chocolate tints and true black in the farthest south. Ras Taffari, prince regent, is a black southerner but of the special superior blackness of the province of Shoa. Slim, short, wiry, Prince Ras Taffari considers himself super-Negroid...
...tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...
...slim young doctor strides through the wards of Montefiore Hospital, New York. He stops at a bed, reads a chart, scrutinizes a face, listens to a heart. He prescribes and strides on, his necktie, but not his thoughts, dangling loosely. He is Dr. Morris M. Weiss. Twenty-six-year-old Dr. Weiss already has two discoveries on heart disease to his credit. One discovery was that auricular fibrillation (a form of heart disease in which the heart fibres rustle like breeze-tossed leaves) was common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats...
Senators-Suspect. There were two men, two charges, two issues. Senators-elect William Scott Vare, portly Pennsylvanian, and Frank Leslie Smith, slim Illinoisian, were charged 1) with using too much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
...Hunter and I believe that he and I should play in the French championships, and since we are convinced that our chances of success are slim unless we play in Europe previous to the championships, we advocated play in the European zone. We are therefore going to Europe and England to play in the championship matches. Whether we go officially or not depends on the Lawn Tennis Association...