Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim as the incident was, it served Italy as an excuse for reminding Greece of Albanian claims on an unspecified part of the ancient Greek province of Epirus, a corner of which, Ciamuria, was taken from Albania by Greece in 1914 after the outbreak of World...
Today's most prominent serious-minded U. S. dancer is a slim, dark-haired woman named Martha Graham, who 15 years ago left a job with the Greenwich Village Follies to try her foot at higher-browed steps. Ex-Showgirl Graham's first serious show was given in 1926 in Manhattan's 48th Street Theatre, backed by $11.25 which she had saved. A deficit of more than that would have sent her back to the Follies. The box office made a profit ($2) and Martha went...
...Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Puget Sound the slim-hulled Coast Guard cutter Perseus pushed her nose last week. She tied up at Seattle and sent her crew ashore on liberty. Some of her seamen were less than judicious in what they had to tell friends and newspaper reporters. The Perseus had been on patrol in Bering Strait where only 54 miles of water separates Continental Alaska from Continental Siberia. Out in the Strait, the Perseus had stopped at U. S.-owned Little Diomede Island with a mission: to find out what was afoot on Soviet-owned...
Three days later a slim, elegant little Chinese newsman, Samuel Chang, sat down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director...
...Allison engine plant in Indianapolis has been the biggest disappointment in the air rearmament of the U. S. Only high-powered (1,000 h.p.) U. S. liquid-cooled engine, the Allison is the U. S. Army Air Corps's one present hope for building airplanes around slim, streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota...