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Word: trimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer, Dave Kerr works for a Toronto stockbroker, plays tennis and handball to keep in trim. In a sport which batters and bruises players so badly that the average hockey player is forced to retire after five years, he is outstanding. Only one stitch has been taken in his anatomy in the past four years. Famed Ching Johnson in twelve seasons of big-league hockey has had bones broken in 27 different parts of his body. Even more outstanding may be the records Dave Kerr establishes by the time he is Ching Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Win, Place or Show | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Former Eli Varsity boxer Walter Smith 2B is listed among the 125-pounders as is Paul O. Chatfield '39, who recently stopped out of his class to trim a 165 pound opponent in House boxing. The 125 and 115 pound brackets show two former Varsity boxers at Southern universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTERS CLASH TODAY IN UNIVERSITY TOURNEY | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Norwegian Jumpers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...showing the necessity for training, Peroy pointed out that he never smokes and that his physical trim is evidenced when he fences Levis and Pecora, who smoke but are 20 years younger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rene Peroy Willing to Fence All-Comers Despite 53 Years | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...sturdy body bundled snugly against Minnesota's snow, Mrs. Maude Neale Lumsden, 26, of Salmo, B. C., entered huge (500 doctors) and busy Mayo Clinic last week. By & by a trim receptionist gave Mrs. Lumsden an envelope into which X-ray photographers, blood counters, uroscopists, gynecologists, internists and surgeons might insert their judgments of the young woman's distressed abdominal organs. Mrs. Lumsden distractedly examined the figure on her diagnosis envelope. With comprehension of the big number came the inner warmth which all men feel when they achieve distinction. Mrs. Lumsden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 1,000,000th Patient | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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