Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, slender old man with a well-brushed mustache and deep-set, friendly blue eyes, Dean Wigmore's passion for harmonizing the law of evidence is accompanied by a passion for just harmonizing. Words or music or both of nearly every song in the Northwestern Law School song book were his composition; he has also privately printed a book of songs called Lyrics of a Lawyer...
...towns below Narvik in Norway's long, slender, north-central neck, Allied landings were made to command the road (but no rail) connections into Sweden and the northern terminus of the one road into Norway's waist...
With city aid slashed to $80,000 a year and only slender endowments of its own, the Philadelphia Museum scrapes along on an operating budget of around $150,000, one-tenth the budget of Manhattan's Metropolitan, which alone among U. S. museums rivals it in size. But it has kept up its building program, now has no galleries open...
Almost every U. S. business bigwig who has been to Moscow knows slender, dry, efficient Spencer Williams. Most of them have rushed to him at one time or another for help in dealing with Bolshevik mountains of red tape...
Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...