Search Details

Word: slimmers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

According to Kadison, roughly 15 percent of Harvard’s student body uses HUHS’ mental health resources, with female students forming a majority of those patients. But the portion of female students writing on the bathroom wall is a much slimmer and more informal contingent. Rather than look to a professional outlet, the students who write on the bathroom wall turn to an invisible, anonymous community...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Writing on the Stalls | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...sport became more popular, women began competing against men in the 1920s in swims across the English Channel, which was considered the most challenging event at the time. This changed women’s swimwear from heavy wool skirts to slimmer one-pieces and ultimately to the bikini, as a compact suit helped minimize chafing during the grueling swims, which lasted 17 hours or more...

Author: By Jane Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swimwear and its Sex Roles | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...lawmakers to shut down congressional cafeterias, walk to work, shut off their BlackBerries and turn off the lights. "If Congress took these four steps for one day," the Heritage Foundation says, "all members would understand the magnitude of the dangers posed by an EMP attack." (They'll also be slimmer, healthier and more mellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMP: The Next Weapon of Mass Destruction? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Finally, in addition to all its accolades, Kirkland does have the dubious distinction of being the only House on campus in which someone has been shot (at least within the past year). Not to worry, statistically that makes the chances of it happening again even slimmer...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Kirkland House | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...health care experts have warned me rarely pays off. "It is a very gloomy picture," says Ajriani Munthe Salak, a researcher from the Legal Aid Foundation for Health. The chances of winning a malpractice suit in Indonesia are slim, she said, and the chances of damages being paid even slimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Indonesia's Health Care System Let Me Down | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next