Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard almost caught the Engineers with a strong showing in the last race of the regatta, but an early lead enabled M.I.T. to wind up the weekend with 329 points, a slim four more than the final Crimson score. Favored Boston University finished fourth in the nine-team regatta...
...endless, heart-stopping moment, the tall, slim rocket hung motionless -incredibly balanced above its incandescent tail. Slowly it climbed the sky, outracing the racket of its engine as it screamed toward space. In the returning silence, the amplified thump of an electronic timer beat like a pulse across the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral. The pulse of the nation beat with it. For this was no routine rocket shoot. Riding that long, white missile as it soared aloft last week was Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., first U.S. astronaut ever fired into space. And riding with...
...missed by a jew hairs. The first one was British Field Marshal Sir William Slim...
Vain as he is, Le Corbusier himself would hardly claim to have invented modern architecture singlehanded, but his slim book and his later work to a large degree plotted its course. "Corbu's" personality and buildings have at times angered, shocked, outraged and offended people, but by the overwhelming vote of his colleagues everywhere, he is at 73 the most influential architect alive...
Shooting at 407 total to Tufts 394, the Crimson held a slim edge over third-place M.I.T. Boston College was close behind in fourth place with a 413, while Brandeis (428), Northeastern (430), and B.U. (440) followed, virtually out of the running for top place honors...