Word: sidelight
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...curious sidelight: one out of every five college boys who smoke at all chooses a pipe, yet the per capita consumption of pipe tobacco on campus is far below the national average. The Pipe and Tobacco Council can only conclude that many Big Men On Campus are chewing on empty pipes to impress girls with their virility or professors with their contemplative natures...
...absorbing sidelight into his character, Hartnett admitted that he had once written an article criticizing the Borden Co. for sponsoring a show that employed Red-lining personnel; before publishing it, he showed it to Borden. The result was that the article was amended, and Hartnett was put on the Borden payroll as a "talent consultant...
...write to compliment you on the Election Extra Issue. It's not that I liked the issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...
...majority (55%) of business and professional people are still Republicans, but only about one in seven among skilled (13%) and unskilled (14%) workers favors the G.O.P. Sidelight: during the past eight years, an increasing minority in each occupation group have decided that there is no essential difference in parties as far as their personal interests are concerned...
...chamber, two Lydian town walls, and a room of the seventh century B.C. These three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely useful in tracking the urban growth of this area, one of the main objects of the expedition. An interesting sidelight of these discoveries along the Patoclus is that the Roman graves are placed near where the Lydian city had been. The Romans always buried outside the city walls; the sixth century Lydian metropolis of Saddis therefore was larger than its Roman counterpart. Urbanization in Lydia in the sixth century...