Word: slenderness
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Fortunately, not even the slender arguments traditionally cited in favor of the November hour can be used to support the April examination. In the case of full courses especially, the latter forms no mirror of mutual acquaintance between pupil and instructor. It is simply an ill-timed interruption of tutorial work and serious study, an organized period of cramming brought on in order that a grade, seldom considered in averaging the final mark, may be returned to University Hall. As is recognized by most members of the faculty, the very brevity of the hour examination renders it a ridiculously inadequate...
...Alaska Peninsula is a long, slender, jagged tongue of land protruding south-west toward Asia, dribbling the Aleutian Islands from its end. It is a Dantesque region of ice and fire. Out of cracks in its glaciers spurts steam from the muttering cauldrons below. Rivers run blood-red with oxide of iron. Mighty volcanoes darken the sky with smoke and ash and litter the land with grotesque shapes of lava. It is the land of Aniakchak. world's largest active crater, within whose bliz-zard-beaten rim, 21 mi. around, a lesser volcano raises its snout and a placid...
...This slender story tells of nothing more than the frustration of some small people, their dependence on chance, their suspicious efforts to avoid what is simplest and best for them, their loneliness and the simple decorum of their pleasures. In July 14 Director Clair's chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with...
...nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army Commander and the leaders of the Arab Nationalist Party who hate Irak's alliance with Britain...
After 20 years the name of Leo Frank still makes news in Georgia and beyond. A slender young Brooklyn Jew with a Cornell degree. Frank went South, married an Atlanta girl, became superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory. In April 1913, a 14-year-old worker named Mary Phagan was found violently murdered in the factory's basement. Two days later Frank was arrested for the crime, tried and convicted largely on the testimony of a Negro employed as a sweeper in the factory. New York City Jews rushed to Frank's defense, raised funds to appeal...