Word: slim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue had cast...
Faced with a considerable lead to overcome, the Boston University relay team entered the last quarter of its race against the Crimson, with the chances of victory very slim indeed. Running anchor against Captain Haggerty, Mastaglio of the Terriers, however, performed the seemingly impossible; overcame his handicap, and leaping to the fore broke the tape a foot in front of the Harvard leader. The time was 3 minutes, 9 and four-fifths seconds...
Jailed, Atheist Sterry, a short, mild, slim man, was able to turn $1,000 bail within a few hours, was thereupon released. Blinking diffidently at newsgatherers he said a toneless voice...
...plan to write an opera, now or in the future?' . . ." He got his answer: "NO, I do not intend to ever write an opera-to sing them is enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor...