Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Schuman's slim majority in the Assembly had been growing slimmer. Last week in one parliamentary battle he won by only three votes. The balance of power was in the hands of deputies calling themselves the U.D.S.R. (Democratic and Socialist Republican Union), who abstained rather than cause a crisis by voting against...
...presumably U.S. rocketmen are making progress. To judge from the photograph (the only information released), the Aerobee is much slimmer and lighter than the V2. It is probably an experimental model built, not to make any impressive altitude records, but to test improvements in motive power and control...
Other measures high on the Republican agenda were an anti-lynching bill and a bill to extend rent control (with the 15% "voluntary" increase), which expires in February. Universal military training was also due to come up, but its chances of passage looked slim. Even slimmer were the chances that Republican leaders would take any steps to add more economic controls. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said he would introduce a standby meat-rationing bill. Senator Taft is on record for a meat-rationing bill-if needed-but only a severe meat shortage would bring about sufficient support...
Seemingly unperturbed, Van Wyck Brooks worked his way back to The World of Washington Irving, an urbane, nostalgic tribute to a period in American life full of immediate fears and long-range assurance. New England: Indian Slimmer traced the last eruption and eventual decline of the New England genius...
...months since he became boss of RKO production, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) had run off many a movie from such a slim start and with a slimmer budget. (The Boy will cost $500,000.) From the process Schary had emerged as the fair-haired hopeful of the film industry. Threatened with the loss of its lucrative British market (TIME, Sept. 22), Hollywood was feverishly seeking ways to make A pictures on B budgets, and to Schary that was an old experience...