Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None May Plot Murder." The Chinese had hoped to conciliate the Ili rebels by granting local self-government, by accepting as vice governor of Sinkiang (in a coalition Government) one of the rebels themselves. But the Chinese were wondering. Young (32), trim Vice Governor Achmadjahm had suddenly packed his belongings and family last month. In a Russian plane they flew to the northwest...
...National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...
...spent 37 of his 56 years on the campus, 17 as president. Bluff and extraverted, he personifies the confidence and optimism, the booming voice and outsized gesture, that marked California of the '20s. A large man (6 ft., 200 lbs.), he diets and exercises to keep trim...
Maybe they were keeping in trim with the coach and the Wallula campers, because they took a short leave of absence to register some runner-up points at the State meet at Manchester. Last year's captain Watkins took second in the 100-yard freestyle, and Woods, who broke two records when the Freshmen topped Yale, followed in Dave Murray, former Crimson backstroke, in the 150-yard backstroke. In the same meet Chuck Hoeizer, in repitition of many an occasion last winter, led the breast-strokers to the tape...
...newsmen, Governor Tom explained that he was a guest and it would be discourteous if he said a single political word. He was simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...