Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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free-style championships; slim Tim Jecko splashed off with the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley as well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing...
...Slim, Westernized Soraya rushed to Switzerland, probably for a new series of "medical checkups." In Zurich, to conceal her purpose from the press, the green-eyed Queen bought 17 ski costumes, new skis, mufflers, mittens, jaunty knitted caps. But she went skiing only twice, to the dismay of the instructor placed wholly at her disposal. The Queen's German mother played solitaire all day, brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous...
...slim book by an angry mother won a victory last week over French medical bureaucracy. In 1952 Micheline Vernhes, wife of a Casablanca industrialist, took her five-year-old daughter Peggy to Paris' Hopital Trousseau. Doctors recommended this public hospital, rather than a more comfortable private clinic, because of better lab facilities in treating Peggy's nearly hopeless case of rheumatic fever...
...cost of a car. As customers have learned to bargain harder, the percentage off the delivered price has risen; the average discount on new 1958 cars is 15%, and many dealers give better than 20% to sew up a sale. The unit profit is slim, but they make just as much money selling 25 cars at 5% profit as five cars at 25% profit. Moreover, the owners of those 25 cars come back for service...
...Princeton had a goalie in the Batchelder-Jones-Frankenburg category, it might have a slim chance tonight, but as it is, Tiger coach Dick Vaughan has not yet even decided on a netminder for tonight. He will probably choose Bo Torrey, who has had some rough evenings this year...