Word: trim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women) they had done very well...
This game will be the first appearance of the squad this year and will give the spectators a chance to size up the prospects for the year. The hoopsters have been getting into shape rapidly and should be in good trim for their game with Boston College on December 9. Three football players, W. R. Harper '30, J. E. Combs ocC., and S. C. Burns '30, who have had a two weeks' respite following the close of the football season are now out and materially strengthen the team...
...reason why Charles Albert Levine did not immediately return home appeared last week. From France came four men and a model. She was trim, neatly proportioned, tapering. She was a model for a 40-ton, 7-motored "flying wing," the like of which Mr. Levine hopes to put into transatlantic passenger operation next year. With her came two Frenchmen-Alexander Kartvelichvili, Edmond Chagniard, her designers...
...Emerson senior class, glib talker, good swimmer, got together with Jack Keener, sleek cheerleader, and Sam Chase, smart debater, and some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that the 24 Negroes went home...
...time (1913-17) governor of Delaware, father of Col. Thomas Woodnut Miller, onetime (1925) U. S. Alien Property Custodian; at Clementon, N. J. of heart disease. He told his host, Col. Joseph H. Baker, he desired exercise. Said Col. Baker, smiling: "Well here's a saw; go trim some of the evergreens." Mr. Miller eagerly agreed, and died of overexertion...