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...They collect all sorts of names without the slighest idea how well they would fill the job or if the president would be interested in them," Katz said. "The list is so speculatory that there is no obligation to inform people on the list that they are under consideration, he said...
...Putney-type graduate may often surround himself with high school friends (ideally, with a high school girl-friend), go back frequently, and with the slighest excuse, to his old school, and return to Harvard despondent, recalling his pleasant visit, the warmth of his welcome (he forgets the role his present Harvard status plays here) and looking forward to his next trip. He dresses quite as he did for the hayride back then...
...report is not copyrighted--therefore free for re-publication--and, according to a member of the Administration, will not be copyrighted. Bender, who has referred reprint requests to the University, said "I personally would not have the slighest intention of copyrighting...
...intricacy of the formulas involved is indicated by the fact that in any vacuum tube the electric potentials applied present four variable factors, all reacting to the slighest deviation...
...quaint feature of the banquet was that, although Mr. Blumenfeld was born in the U. S., not one-tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until...