Word: slouches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung by his racket...
...England A. A. U. Champion, is a junior, who has a lot of boxing experience behind him. He is hoping to get a job teaching English, or one in the field of Social Service. Brody, former Annapolis athlete, is no slouch with the gloves either...
Robbins: The Slouch of Time! Behind the news of the century lies mighty, unknown drama. Tonight we bring you the real-life stories behind the headlines-the news as it really is. Time Slouches On! (bugle call) . . . We take you to Washington, where upon the witness stand [at the movie "propaganda" hearings] sits a well-known movie figure, known and loved throughout the world! (voices hubbub...
...Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave...
...authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed him from town to town. Once...