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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havillanc? charged into Selznick's office and in an emotional, sometimes tearful scene, pleaded with him to keep Cukor. Being smart women as well as capable actresses, they realized that the chances of getting another director with the same peculiar interest in women's roles were very slim. But they were fighting a lost cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...fight alone against an enemy more numerous than ourselves." But if Scandinavia went to the aid of Finland, it would be an invitation: 1) to Russia to move in on the north; 2) to Germany to move in on the south. There was always a chance, though slim, that Russia would be satisfied with Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial help Finland might hold Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...dining halls' slim operating profit of $5,505.08 last year would be entirely wiped out by the 10 per cent rise in the cost of food which current national agricultural policy may very likely produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticklish Problems in Lowering Rates Face New Council Committee on Board | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...years Martin Block, softly recommending brides to Michaels Credit Department Store, husbands to the Madison Personal Loan service, listeners to the trumped-up rigmarole of his Make-Believe Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pitchman's Progress | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...season this evening at 7:30 o'clock, the Rifle Club will meet a team of Harvard employees in the Memorial Hall Rifle Range. Eleven men will go to the firing line representing the University. These participants are as follows: Jim Cooper, Lew Hyde, Hank Dunbar, Larry Davis, Slim Goldberg, Don Peden, Ted Shaul, Dave Pillsbury, C. E. Kitchin, Gil Blake, and Miller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Club Holds Match | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

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