Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American History and Literature. The current academic year offers undergraduates one full course and six half courses in American literature. Two of these half courses are primarily for graduates; two more, English 160 and English 170b, fall in the same examination period in the Spring term. Pickings were slim this year in American literature...
...four years and eleven issues, in lively and generally flawless Latin, the Acta has been reporting the news of ancient Rome for teachers and pupils in schools all over Britain. With a slim capital of ?100, two Latin masters-George Maxwell Lyne, 44, of the Blackpool Grammar School and Robert Douglas Wormald, 49, of the Worcester Royal Grammar School-had started it to persuade Britons that there was really nothing very dead about Latin. Their readers seemed to agree: teachers began ordering as many as 50 and 100 copies at a time (price: sixpence apiece). Circulation hit 9,000 with...
Adams and Eliot will run re-elections for delegates to the Student Council at lunch and supper today. Close races in both Houses last Thursday forced the vote; in each case there had been sufficient discrepancies in the balloting to nullify the slim leads the candidates held...
...Slim Purses. There were plenty of other cars at prices more in line with the U.S. family budget. The Rootes group, one of the "big six" British manufacturers and a big exporter to the U.S. and Canada, sent a slick five-passenger Hillman Minx convertible ($1,745), and a four-cylinder Humber Hawk sedan ($1,997) that came close to looking like...
Most of the sculptures selected by the Whitney were abstract concoctions of spikes, bumps, lumps, bars and bits of string, and most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse and Man looked as if it had been made for fun from the contents of a carpenter's scrap barrel. Despite its casual air it was as tense and tightly constructed as anything in the show...