Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...
...slender, upright physique, usually tall and [sometimes] has a symmetry and beauty of proportion that is aesthetically of the highest order." Dr. Sheldon found that many famous paintings of Jesus Christ represented...
...woman of type 442 is one of nature's practical jokes. In youth she is generally an active, slender pep girl with the endomorphic 4 concealed. After maturity that component blossoms out and she gets chubby. Sometimes a girl of this type, in her streamlined adolescence, chooses a career as a dancer. It might save years of wasted effort if she could be dissuaded by constitutional diagnosis and prediction of her future dimensions...
Young Mr. Smith (he will get his M. D. next year) conceived the idea of slipping the severed ends of a blood vessel over a slender rod from opposite directions and sewing them where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of course the rod cannot be left inside, nor can it be removed. So Sidney Smith makes his rods of sugar in sizes to fit all types of blood vessels. Coated with a thin film of bland oil, the rod stiffens the vein or artery while a surgeon mends the break...
...enough, the secretary gave the astonished directors another: slim, knife-faced President Lammot, 59, had "reached an age where retirement is . . . incidental to desire for relief from responsibilities. . . ." But Lammot did not leave the company. He was quietly elected chairman of the board. Then the directors turned to a slender, broad-domed, greying man beside him: Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr., 52, long known as the Du Pont crown prince. He was elected president-the first non-Du Pont to head the company in nearly a century. Unlike his elder brother,* Walter Carpenter is not even a Du Pont...