Word: tapers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...
...jockey costume, he looks deceptively thin. Most of his 112 pounds are padded about muscular shoulders, which taper to a slim waist and toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...
...seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...
...winter's competition had ended, Ulen took Norris aside--in the much the same way he had taken Franny Powers aside in 1941 just before Powers went on to win the national intercollegiate 220 title. Ulen worked on Norris until the term ended and then let his protege taper off over the summer...
...Expansion is not contemplated," he added, "and fall registration figures will tell if the demand is beginning to taper off." Although there are 125 applications for the fall and at present only approximately 80 vacancies this ratio is not too alarming in view of the fact that last year an initial demand of 1200 dropped to 100 by December...