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Word: slimmer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Gone are the square, bloated, inverted-bathtub lines of the old models. The new cars are slimmer and more graceful (see cut). Said Packard Engineer Jesse G. Vincent: "We had to fall in line with modern design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Team | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...name that went with the face was Jacob Malik. He appeared as a broad-shouldered, blond figure, slimmer on television than he actually is, with a hard-set jaw, impassive and unsmiling. Often he stared balefully at his unseen audience; sometimes he scribbled notes or leaned back to catch the whispers of three Russian aides sitting behind him. Hour after hour, in a dry voice that rarely rose in audible anger, meticulously using the same phrases and arguments, meticulously carrying out his orders, he lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF LAKE SUCCESS: Junior S.O.B. | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Slimmer. Last week most informed Western political and military analysts still doubted that the Soviet Union would attack Western Germany and thereby almost surely provoke World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Order of Battle | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

City of Flowers. Irish Catholic Sean O'Faolain (Come Back to Erin, King of the Beggars) is the latest in a long line of Northerners to make such an attempt. A Slimmer in Italy is not only an excellent, heartfelt guide to most of the principal cities of the peninsula, it is also admirably designed to salve the blows of disillusionment that many a pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beauty & the Beast | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Chances of winning a Fulbright award are slimmer this year than last, according to statistics released yesterday by John U. Monro '34, Assistant to the Provost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fulbright Awards Scarcer This Year, Statistics Show | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

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