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Word: trims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sculptor's ambition has always been to make his works "as beautiful and perfect as a well-built boat." That simile would never have occurred to classical sculptors, who took the human body as their measure of perfection. It partly explained the mixture of respect for his materials, trim severity and bargelike bluntness in Zadkine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boats & Bombs | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Langer's voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dawn Over Capitol Hill | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Catch | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...little Ozark town of Steelville, Mo. (pop. 1,013), a trim, white-mous-tached old physician was busy last week trying to prove that most of his life had been misspent. For more than 40 years, Dr. John Zahorsky had specialized in pediatrics and practiced in big St. Louis hospitals. Now 79, Dr. Zahorsky was back in his old home town, bent on proving that an alert country doctor can do as much with a minimum of modern equipment as a passel of specialists with all the shiny facilities of a big-city hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back to the Country | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Publisher Helen Reid of the Herald Tribune, as appalled as Parsons, sent Buel Weare, the New York Trib's syndicate manager, hustling to Paris to take over from Wise, who had resigned. Weare started to trim the small (19 men) editorial staff, and cut the Herald's eight-page editions to six and sometimes four pages. Month ago, Editor Parsons got a cable from Mrs. Reid to come home for a conference. There he learned that Weare had made another recommendation: lop off the editor's job-and Parsons' $19,500 salary-and combine the editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribulations in Paris | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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