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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Bill Barclay embarked on a sleeper last night, and unless the Crimson quintet has been in hibernation since December, the chances are slim that it will awake in time to gain its first victory in the past fourteen starts...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Basketball Team Leaves for Ithaca; Not Favored to Beat Cornell Today | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...relative improvement than any other hockey team around, but at the same time the Engineers have gained. Limited as to material and practice time, MIT has consistently been a fighting unit and has played several very close games against stronger rivals. Monday night the Engineers held Brown to a slim 5 to 4 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Faces MIT at Arena Today | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

...national singles championship. It was like looking down from the observer's roost of an operating room: the walls cold and white, the temperature a chilly 45°. The way the experts played it, squash racquets was a test of tactics and attrition. With slim-throated, roundheaded racquets, they slammed a little black ball around the wooden-walled court. The trick was to stand in midcourt (from which most defensive shots could be readily reached) and run the other fellow's legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Sweat | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Five of the six Dartmouth victories were won from small prep schools such as Tilton and Kimball Union. In their one collegiate contest, however, the Green freshmen took a slim 41 to 38 victory over Yale. Harper's team has beaten three college teams, Trinity, Captain, and Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavy Freshman Slate Sets Six Teams in Action Today | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Next step will be to test the bed in the nose of an F80 jet fighter. But its full advantage will not be known until a special extra-slim jet plane has been designed around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prone Pilot | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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