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Word: slimmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounds, he has played both prof baseball and football, and can be a greater pmenace than one would think when he br frequently. Ted was born in Deming, New but he is a graduate of Stuyvesant high school Columbia University in New York. In high sch was a slim but alert center on the eleven, and an all city rating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 Words a Minute | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...have not shivered because I disagree with such views and I don't believe that other "navy hardshells" have either. About the little dig in the last sentence of your article which reads, "A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar." What is the idea? ... To ridicule our next Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true, and it is not true, is in extremely bad taste. A gourmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Chiromys daubeutonia) is one type of the little, twerp-faced lemurs of France's Madagascar, remarkable for the fact that the third finger on each hand is preternaturally long and slim for delicately picking up caterpillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Iron Fireman has made money every year since it was incorporated in 1926, though profits were pretty slim in the middle of Depression. A large part of the profits have been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Firemen | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Slim, sandy-haired Lawyer Douglas has a genial grin which twists itself into grim seriousness with disconcerting rapidity. He married a colleague of his high-school teaching days in Yakima, Wash., is careless in dress, likes bridge and the cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Walla Walla to Washington | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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