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Word: slims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth stayed within striking range throughout the first half, as the Crimson clung to a slim three-point margin, 40-37, at the midway point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Cagers Drub Dartmouth, 80-65 | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...places stress on gourmet food lines as well as in-shop butchers and bakers. Says one admiring competitor: "Haub took a store in Berlin, reduced the number of articles for sale from 6,000 to 1,200 and found that sales actually went up." A&P, which must slim still further before it can hope to recover, will not miss the lesson that less can mean more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Price of Grandma's Pride | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...savings wouldn't be worth a hill of beans." To supplement the couple's church pension and Social Security, she cleans house for a neighbor while her husband Carl does handyman jobs at $4.50 an hour. "Without the extra money it would be awful slim pickings," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inflation: Who Is Hurt Worst? | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...chances of changing the Engelhard Library's name are slim at the very best, most administrators agree. But Richard C. Marius, director of the Expository Writing program, says he will do all he can to revive the undergraduate Writing Center, whose operations were suspended this fall for lack of cash. Marius this week promised that Expos teachers will each contribute one free hour a week to help students with their prose next fall...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: The Roar of the Crowd | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...brochure is slim, almost discreet, yet it has caused more anger in the art world than any book in recent memory. In gold capitals on a burgundy ground, its cover announces "The Nelson Rockefeller Collection." Inside it resembles-and is-a mail-order catalogue, with scores of lavishly shot objects. These range from an 18th century Chinese porcelain teapot stand ($65) to Age of Bronze, a nude youth by Rodin, at $7,500. Everything comes from Rockefeller's private collection-one of the most celebrated, public or private, in America. But everything is imitation. The Modigliani you can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Who Needs the Art Clones? | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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