Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first game with B. U. John Mahoney, veteran Jayvee hurler, with Slim Curtiss's aid after the seventh inning, edged the Terriers 6-4. That was B. U.'s first game this season. With several more encounters under their belt, the opposition is anxious for revenge this afternoon...
...Although Slim Curtiss handed Navy a 7-4 setback during the spring trip and received credit for a 12-7 win over Penn, the tall Junior hurler has not been at top form lately. His slow ball has been cutting the batter too high, while his fast-ball has been dropping instead of the former jump...
...child. In the case of ex-Child John L. Lewis this cherished birthright has become to many a "consuming ambition" and its exercise by this labor leader would be regarded as vaguely unAmerican. But the possibility of Mr. Lewis' offering himself as a candidate in 1940 is "a slim one indeed" according to Edward Levinson, well-informed Labor editor of the New York Post. In his book, Labor on the March,* published this week, Author Levinson ascribes high-minded purposes to this self-denial...
Baldish, 33-year-old Harry Cooper has a past-performance chart that dates back to 1927. That was the year he lost the U. S. Open championship to one-eyed Tommy Armour by the slim margin of a 15-ft. putt. For the past five years he has maintained a scoring average that no U. S. pro could equal: he has never finished lower than fourth in annual scoring. Last year his form sheet* revealed that his 1937 average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that...
...Slim Curtiss started on the mound for the Crimson and gained credit for the win, although he was relieved by Tom Healey during a two-run Quaker uprising in the fifth canto. Healey pitched the remainder of the encounter, allowing only four hits...