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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That rare beast, the house literary magazine, has come yawning with some grace from its cave. Two stories, eight poems, and seven photographs form a slim Winthrop House organ, modes in pretensions as well as bulk...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

...Bruins jumped ahead early with a first quarter score by Jesse Jupiter, and held the slim lead through the half, despite sloppy play in the wind and cold at Columbia. Two quick goals late in the third period, by John Claflin and Ben Brewster put the game out of reach and ensured Brown its fourth straight Ivy League soccer title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Takes Soccer Title | 11/21/1966 | See Source »

Knox, Ward's, Mitchell's -- these are the easy ones. There are harder ones--like McFail's. Just to get into McFail's you have to slide down a rope through a 45-foot pit, wearing a diver's wet suit. Then, you squeeze down a slim 55-foot vertical fissure, with your back pressed hard against one wall, your feet against the other, in turn lowering each a little...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Where Have The Explorers Gone? Today's Adventurer Craves A Cave | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

Michele Ray, 28, boasts an odd assortment of journalistic qualifications. A former fashion model and Elle magazine cover girl, the slim 5-ft. 10-in. Frenchwoman is a professional race-car driver and is making her own 16-mm. movie in Viet Nam. She is single-mindedly persistent in search of what she wants. "I first go to the Americans," she purrs, "and if they don't tell me, then I go to the Vietnamese-they always tell me everything." As a freelancer, she recently spent eight days with the Green Berets. Grateful for her presence, they named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Correspondents: Femininity at the Front | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap. He put out his first slim catalogue, and it brought him $2,400,000 in orders within eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: The Success of Neckermann's Pig | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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