Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on a trim, whitewashed farm some 15 miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
When Yudin speaks, Russia listens. For Moscow University Professor P. F. Yudin is to Soviet dialectics what Eugene Tarle is to Soviet history-the nimble scholar who can trim theory to fit practice. Last week the gist of a talk Yudin gave a group of Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special...
...sell at least 500 bikes a year, and a good part of those to Harvard and Radcliffe students." Frankel feels there is nothing like biking for keeping the figure trim. On the Crimson wrestling team in 1933 and '34 (he recalls beating Yale), he is proud of the fact that he kept his wrestling weight until he entered the Army three years ago. He now keeps trim by commuting from Newton--on a bike...
Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca," Strauss his "greatest Salome...
Dale's house, on the back 80, is a prosperous middle-western farm home with all possible conveniences. Gus's house, like a thousand Cass County farmhouses, is a seven-room frame structure weathered to a faded ocher with trim the color of last year's canned peas. (Like thousands of Iowa farmers, the Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws...