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Word: trim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: St. George & the Farmers | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...were Fred Hafka of Leverett House and Jon Cavarnos, unattached. But when the four closely-bunched wherries had traveled half the distance, an un-identified half the distance, an un-identified single scull with a middle-aged oarsman at the sweeps joined the race and rowed easily in his trim craft beside the leading, but more clumsy wherry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wherry Scullers Open Meet in Rain | 8/20/1946 | See Source »

...Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two for the Price of One | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Prague's Manes Kaverna last week, the people sat for hours over a cup of ersatz coffee until night came, and the red, blue and green lights strung in the poplars were turned on; a 15-piece band, trim in white linen jackets (though some musicians omitted neckties), fiddled nostalgia. Prague's current favorite, which was banned during the war as Red propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Blues | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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