Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their unphilosophic and unscholarly impatience 5,000 male & female students demonstrated against Japan last week in Peiping. Afterward over 100 were hospitalized as a result of severe beatings by Chinese police. One youngster offered his slim torso with the cry "Beat me more!" and was obliged...
...Italy, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Rainey, Will Hays, Lawrence Tibbett, Amelia Earhart, hundreds of others. Always such organizations as the Red Cross, the Warm Springs Foundation, the Will Rogers Memorial can count on a free Christy poster for their campaigns. They are all practically the same: a slim, toothsome young lady in Greek draperies, arms outstretched, welcoming the world...
Down to a perfect landing at Natal, Brazil one afternoon last week slid a tiny, single-motored De Haviland-Gypsy biplane. Out of 'it, her sharp little face bright with joy, jumped a slim, 25-year-old girl who had just become the first woman to make a solo flight across the South Atlantic.* Hustling off for a cup of tea she said: "I'll fly on to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow...
Forty-five years ago when Winifred Sweet was a slim, pretty young woman with red hair and blue eyes, the Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been...
...hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around her diseased lung. When he judged that the cushion of air was big enough to immobilize the lung, he withdrew the trocar. The slim hole between the ribs closed by itself...