Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of polls that are circulated between now and the time construction begins, regardless of how great the volume of letters and editorials has become by then. The Corporation spent 15 months debating whether or not it should approve a new Club and there is only a slim chance that it would reverse the decision if given an opportunity. There is no known precedent for the latter...
...admitted, to study in an atmosphere of Anglo-French cooperation. To create that atmosphere, Oxford picked as St. Antony's first warden just the sort of independent-minded, well-educated Englishman Besse had learned to admire during the years he had traded and traveled all over the world. Slim, trim Frederick William Dampier Deakin...
...When slim, silent John Galbreath heard that Railroader Robert R. Young and others wanted to sell most of Cleveland's 35-acre Terminal building group, success still beckoned. Built by. the buccaneering Van Sweringen brothers for $100 million in the 19203, the Terminal group had collapsed with the rest of the brothers' empire, and had been picked up by Young for peanuts, and recently have been good moneymakers...
...Laborites were plainly worried. The nine Liberals had decided to vote with the Tories against the government's proposal for a ninepence a gallon increase in the gasoline tax. Illness had reduced the slim Labor majority to the vanishing point...
...fire irons, tribes of tongs, shovels in sheaves Skeleton bedsteads, wardrobe drawers agape, Rows of tall, slim brass lamps with dangling gear And worse, cast clothes a-sweetening...