Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Button, Harvard's Olympic titlist, took a slim nine point lead over Jimmy Grogan, as the National Figure Skating Championships opened last night at Colorado Springs...
...only method of securing work is through good personal contacts in a specialized field, and even then the chances are slim. The student-sponsored work camps will give anyone a nice clean conscience and a wealth of ruddy friends, although their financial remunerations barely cover a short fling at the local bistro...
...seems to be: 'Nothing-but he has it in New Hampshire.' " As for Truman, Reston reported that the "best opinion," which he did not identify, was that the President would win. The Fair-Dealing New York Post's William V. Shannon agreed: Kefauver "has only a slim chance of getting even one of the eight [convention votes...
With these slim clues to go on, Price recalled a fragment of knowledge picked up from his studies. There was a famous man in 1391 who wrote about astronomy. The same man had a friend at Merton whom he called "The Philosophical Strode." Could it be that the author of MS. 75-a "lewde compilator of the labour of old astrologiens"-was Geoffrey Chaucer himself...
Swordsticks & Umbrellas. He was a slim, tall youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life...