Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Amateur Athletic Union track and field championships at Boulder, Colo., the thin air at 5,350 ft. above sea level proved a tonic for the University of Pittsburgh's Arnie Sowell, winner of the 880-yd. run in 1 min. 47.6 sec., a full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time...
Late-lingering winter in upstate New York kept Cornell's thin-sided racing shells in the boathouse longer than Coach Harrison Sanford would have liked; it takes a long and tedious spring to work a crew into shape for the long and tedious sweep-swinging season. So the Big Red got off to a slow start. On the Severn in April, they lost to Navy; on the Potomac in May, and even on the home waters of Lake Cayuga four weeks later, Cornell's varsity eight came home second, behind the powerful Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania...
...Bravo for your account, "The Engineer Shortage," in the May 30 issue. We know we are in the front line, and your article helps to show many how thin...
Washington wits have long remarked that the Senate is called the upper House because it ups appropriations authorized by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate was upping White House proposals. Since the Democrats' thin margin of control did not promise victory for a separate Democratic program, they adopted the strategy of molding President Eisenhower's program to their own expansive fancy. The day after the Senate multiplied Ike's housing program nearly sixfold (see above), it upped the Administration request for a 90?-an-hour minimum wage (v. the present 75? floor...
...Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts honored Spanish-born Painter Pablo Picasso with a panoramic exhibition of his works, thus marked his 75th birthday and the 54th anniversary of his arrival in France. Picasso himself, waiting for the crowd to thin before going to his own show, holed up in his new Cannes villa with a mysterious new girl friend, fortyish, known as Madame Z. As a long line of limousines poured out specially invited guests on opening day, a grim little old lady, topped by a black straw hat cluttered with artificial flowers, showed up, herself looking like...