Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory over Princeton is a must if Harvard is to maintain its slim edge over Brown in the Ivy race. Brown raised its record to 4-1 last week with a 1-0 win over the Tigers...
...name, testifies in a trial as an eyewitness to events he never saw, and later, on seduction bent, "enters" a girl's life by pretending he knew her dead brother. In the telling, everything is hemstitched with the heaviest of literary embroidery. (A telephone booth is "a slim, body-width oratory . . . a temple of self-abuse, saving synagogue of the air.") Once in a while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total effect of Author Calisher...
...voters of Cambridge have endorsed the system of Proportional Representation by the slim majority of 455 ballots...
High in the French Pyrenees, peasants were startled for weeks by two soot-black cars, swathed in tape and disguised by tacked-on boards, streaking under the slim poplars and bouncing up the cruel mountain roads at 100 m.p.h. Last week at London's auto show at Earls Court, the tacky-looking autos showed their true faces. Spinning on twin turntables in peaceful repose were two new Mark X sedans, Jaguar Cars Ltd.'s first newly designed big sedans in ten years. A bustling British maker of luxury sedans and speedy sports cars, Jaguar has become Britain...
...wildfire interest of U.S. educators in a Harvard psychologist named Jerome Bruner began last year when he published a slim book titled The Process of Education (TIME, Sept. 26, 1960). Its bold and challenging hypothesis: "Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest way to any child at any stage of development...