Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curie, 34-year-old younger daughter and biographer of Madame Marie Sklodovska Curie, once declared: "I don't hate science, but it just terrifies me." Last week, slim and chic, she arrived in Manhattan with two objects: 1) the "exciting pleasure of buying some American clothes," and 2) to lecture about her great but dowdy mother and other female scientists...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
With nobody in either camp unreservedly for war, but plenty of war talk ringing through the land, this week two slim but articulate volumes by best-selling public thinkers hit the bookstalls. Each is released by the same publisher, Harcourt, Brace & Co., and the company is due to lose no money by the fact that each speaks the will of an opposing camp...
...Shields will be out to crack his meet record of 5.7 in the 45 yard high hurdles, and Sophomore Don Donahue will do well to finish third. Harvard's chances to place in the 1000, a new event this year, are slim. Joe Bradley is Harvard's only entry...
...unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York's slim black fox, District Attorney Tom Dewey, currently the G.O.P.'s leading candidate for Presidential nomination...