Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden...
Elephant tennis players trimmed Lowell 6 to 3, but it is too late for Eliot to push Kirkland out of first place, since the Deacons have an almost clean record. Lowell still remains, in first place in the golf standings, but by a much slimmer margin then before the Bell boys tasted defeat yesterday...
...their number vary from 15 per cent to 20 per cent exclusive of those in graduate schools, and a grim view of the future will be obtained. It is a dangerous situation when men may be asked to sacrifice their lives with the prospects for an enjoyable life appearing slimmer than they have been for generations...
...addition, Yale was guilty of employing duck-pins, while the Cantabs limited themselves to the taller, slimmer, less easily stricken candle-pins...
...expenses. Gross national bank income in 1929 was $1,389,400,000, expenses $986,882,000. Last year gross bank income was only $847,197,000, expenses $577,851,000. In short, profits may be waxing, but banking is waning. Moreover the banking that remains is done on slimmer margins. The Federal Reserve Board released figures last week showing what easy money meant in terms of practical banking. For every $100 of loans and investments, national banks received $5.76 in interest in 1929, only...