Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contact with the staff is easy and informal. Whether one is playing billiards with the master (Professor Taylor is seeded sixth in the House three-cushion tournament and fourth in straight billiards) or eating a dinner with a tutor, one is hardly aware of the thin line which separates faculty from students...
Fogg has thus spread itself as thin as it can. Further ideas have sometimes failed to materialize and others would result in certain overextension of the Museum's faculties. In the first category is the support of undergraduate painting. Coolidge has experimented with it from time to time but response has never justified the drain on space and staff...
...world, Doris nevertheless had a great natural dignity, an almost glacial repose that seemed invulnerable to any appeal. For 2% months a concealed camera recorded her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Louis Cholden. His slow struggle to reach a human being submerged in indifference had in it all the wire-thin inten sity of great drama. When Doris finally smiled and spoke her first word ("pretty"), it was as though the curtain had just come down on the tremendous third act of a moving tragedy. The dramatic line was strengthened by Orson Welles's occasional readings...
Such resignation is not for a whip-thin, irascible old (80) Canadian named Herman Smith Johannsen. Convinced that his country's youngsters are going to pot sitting in front of their television sets, "Jack Rabbit" Johannsen elected himself a one-man committee to do something about it, and offered his spare time to selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic...
...Crossing blades in The Bronx with the best swordsmen in the East, the Naval Academy's foil, epee and saber wielders won the three-weapon title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships by the thin edge of a single saber bout...