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...oldest and most primitive corn cobs--scarcely larger than a one-cent piece--were found in Bat Cave, N.M. They are estimated to date from 3000 to 3900 B.C., the botanists revealed. The plant bearing these cobs was thought to be a slender shoot, one or two feet in height...
...this House have the greatest admiration and affection for the Prime Minister . . . Can we be left in suspense?" Beaming, Sir Winston broke in to say, "I am sorry I did not bring my hearing aid," as he dispatched his son-in-law, M.P. Christopher Soames, to get the slender, white, lily-shaped trumpet Sir Winston has substituted for the earplug he first used.-"I don't want to miss anything," he confided in a loud aside. Fletcher tried again. Churchill, his trumpet to his ear, sat back smiling benignly, but said not a word...
...Bricker insists that Congress shall have the power to regulate all executive agreements; the Administration will not yield these powers-which are all too slender in an era when events demand fast, detailed executive action in foreign relations...
...Faure did not come off quite so well. Set to poems by de Lisle, Silvestre, and Verlaine, they typify that bittersweet, almost perfumed school of French music on the border of out-and-out Impressionism. Utmost delicacy and nuance are needed to convince the listener that "jets of slender fountains sob with ecstasy." Samuel Walter's piano accompaniment, although accurate, completely neglected the musical imagery. Miss Wheeler, for her part, lacks the technique of "French" projection--a sharply defined, almost nasal quality--that the vocal lines demand. She was more than equal to big emotional climaxes, but not to evocations...
...fact was that Alabama was not full enough. Slender, fleet-footed Dick Moegle got away for three long touchdown runs in all, and Rice made a fourth touchdown in the final quarter on a 75-yd. sustained drive. Alabama lost to Rice, 28-6. Fiery Fullback Lewis apologized to Rice's Moegle for his moment of aberration. Dick Moegle grinned and said, "Forget it." Tommy Lewis, who wept unashamedly in the dressing room, moaned: "I don't think I'll ever get over...