Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Centaurs, parakeets, a curly tailed unicorn resting on a carpet of flowers while pomegranate juices drip on its milky hide; heraldic crests, peasants reaping, Hector girding himself in 15th century steel, slim ladies picnicking in the everlasting green glow of a medieval Arcadia-the great exhibition of 14th to 16th century tapestries, jointly organized by the National Museums of France and New York's Metropolitan, is an exquisite arbor of diversion. Shown last October at the Grand Palais in Paris, it opened in Manhattan last week. It is undoubtedly the most important exhibition of its kind ever mounted...
Rojas, who had beaten Buckley in an earlier outing at Northeastern's track, started out in the lead, but hit a slow quarter mile time of 64 seconds. He maintained a slim lead over Buckley with a half mile time of 2:08, but fell a stride behind shortly before the three-quarter mark. Buckley picked up a stride in succeeding lap and Roja's kick wasn't enough to make up the difference...
...schedules. Laporte forecasts that, compared with 1973, traffic will show no gain this year and may even drop as much as 5%. Many other analysts echo the prediction of United President Edward Carlson, who expects "zero growth" for the industry this year. Average profits probably will run to a slim 4% on investment...
...meet should be decided by the relays, Harvard should pull out a victory in the mile relay. But Northeastern's two-mile team has several low 1:50's men, and chances of a Crimson win in that event appear slim...
...poem, a great many Vietnamese today believe that they are being punished for some collective sin committed in the dim past. The Tale of Kieu holds out hope that virtue will be rewarded, that free will can alter a person's karma. But it is a slim hope for a people who have known centuries of war and endured a series of foreign occupations. As Translator Thong writes in the introduction: "By an accident of history, the autobiography of a divided soul [Kieu's] has come to epitomize a moral crisis that confronts all Vietnamese . . . Until the Vietnamese...