Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having unearthed a perfect draftee (TIME, Nov. 10), the Army got around to figuring out a composite one. He is quite a trim character, a little on the small side. He stands 5 ft. 8 in., weighs 144 lb., has a lean 31-in. waistline, a 33¼-in. chest, feet that can be fitted with 9½-D shoes. To keep him during his first year in the Army, the Quartermaster Corps shells out $404.65-$175.20 (48? a day) for food; $162.05 for clothing; $15.79 for individual equipment such as shaving gear; $51.61 for barracks equipment such as sheets...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...
...Liverpool convalescent home last week death came to a trim little Briton named Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, who had apparently lived 112 years. Alfred Arnold could never prove his age. There were no such things as birth certificates when he was born. He himself admitted that the only evidence he had was a book an uncle had inscribed to him "on his twelfth birthday, Nov. 9, 1840." But people who knew Alfred Arnold never questioned this evidence. For one thing, Alfred Arnold never tried to capitalize on his age. He had much else to do. His life was as full...
...years after he became Tsar, Peter began to woo the sea. He learned on a Russian lake how to trim a sheet and ease a tiller. Later he went to Holland disguised as Peter Mikhailov, able-bodied seaman, there took a job in shipyards and learned how to warp gnarled oak into clean ship shape with his own hands. He learned navigation, piloting, naval tactics...
Already put in fighting trim because of a special Spring practice last year, the cheerleading squad is putting on the finishing touches to their routines for this fall's football games. Feature of this year's repertoire is reputed to be a skyrocket cheer to end all such pyrotechnic displays...