Word: trims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, a greying, balding veteran of 19,000 hours and 3,200,000 air miles, Captain Heath Proctor of American Airlines boarded his four-engined DC-6 Nevada at Newark Airport as businesslike as his trim blue uniform. As the plane droned west at 20,000 ft. and 275 m.p.h., he turned his controls over to his copilot, walked back through the pressurized cabin to chat with his 54 passengers. Three hours and 22 minutes later, his Flight No. 19 rolled to a stop at the Chicago terminal...
...study in an atmosphere of Anglo-French cooperation. To create that atmosphere, Oxford picked as St. Antony's first warden just the sort of independent-minded, well-educated Englishman Besse had learned to admire during the years he had traded and traveled all over the world. Slim, trim Frederick William Dampier Deakin...
Library officials have gradually slashed dead weight from the stacks throughout the year in an effort to trim down the present 100,000 volume collection to 80,000. All purchases of new books will concentrate on those required in undergraduate courses...
...heavier frost of whiteness in his hair. But there was more of a change than that-something the office had done to the man. He no longer looked like an anonymous face in the crowd. He stood erect as a West Pointer, radiated confidence, and looked amazingly trim for a man of 65. He had sampled authority, and liked it. He could reward friends, punish enemies. He had proved that he could whip his opponents even when some of his own supporters were dragging their feet. Not only was Harry Truman used to the job he once had feared...
...Bernardino, Calif., Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 81, took a now-familiar pose (see cut) which helps keep him in trim. Then he hurried east to appear in NBC's TV show called Life Begins At 80, where he said he might stand on his head again ("It's good for the digestion") or else do a fast Russian kazachek ("It keeps my knees supple...