Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have not yet ruled Loren MacKinney out of the Yale contest, but his chances of seeing service are becoming increasingly slender. He was able to walk about the field yesterday and may be able to jog in a day or two. But the best he can hope for is to have his injured leg respond to treatment quickly enough for him to run by Saturday. In any event, he will miss a week's practice and undoubtedly will not start against Yale...
...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...
...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...
Married. Barbara Gushing, 23, dark, slender, beauteous daughter of the late great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of young Mrs. James Roosevelt; and Harvardman Stanley Graf ton Mortimer Jr., 27; in East Hampton...
...dark, quiet room the investigators put the patient on his back. They passed a slender tube through one nostril into his stomach, so that a sample of the stomach fluid could be tapped at any time. They talked soothingly to him, urged him to relax and think peaceful thoughts. When he was in a good frame of mind they took a stomach sample. Then they began to talk with him about other things (with the tube through his nostril he could talk well enough)-unpleasant things, things that made him resentful, anxious, angry, frustrated. They continued their calculated tactlessness till...