Word: sliver
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...Soldiers are everywhere, some of them on leave to meet their wives or sweethearts in the provincial cities.) Food, of course, is scarce-not so scarce as to be unhealthy or even a serious problem for ordinary people, but scarce enough so one can never forget the subject (a sliver of butter with each meal; perhaps no butter at all would be easier to bear). As for clothes, English women have never been famous for their chic and now they seem to have abandoned the attempt. Cigarets are really scarce. Movies come at inconvenient times...
...battle told correspondents they had nicked the enemy for only 21,000. Among themselves, Chinese had learned to discount their press ta hua-big talk. They did not realize that Americans, unused to Chinese newspaper ways, were accepting Chungking statements at face value, that editorialists were using every sliver of American bright news from the dark Orient as an editorial springboard...
...whole bond issue-the very thing that SEC had hoped such bidding might obviate. Dealers and investors outside New York, who have for years complained that they weren't getting a fair slice of the best issues from the big Eastern syndicates, this time got not even a sliver...
William M. Abrahams '41, of Newton Center, and William W. Tyng '41, of Jamaica Plain, divided the Lloyd Mcklm Garrison Prize for poems written by undergraduates. The men will receive sliver medals and will divide the prize award of $160. Abraham's poem was entitled "Self Portrait"; and Tyng's poem, "The Six Saints of Calis." Honorable mention went to Cedric H. Whitman '43, of Middleton, R.I., Alan J. Pifer '44, of Shirely, Frederick G. Ranney Jr. '43, of Boston, and Francis L. Dawson Jr. '43, of Lynn...
Captain Walker knew that bullets account for less than 40% of battle casualties, that a cigaret case, a pocket Bible, a packet of love letters will sometimes stop a metal sliver. He concluded that a curved steel plate, easily slipped into a special pocket of a gas-mask container, would protect most of a man's precious lights...