Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have her meet Prof. Grindell-Matthews, famed inventor of the death-ray (TIME, Apr. 21, SCIENCE) as I met him the other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have to say to him, I wonder; for he is a quiet, shy, slight Englishman, just as shy and as quiet as is she, and he claims to be a devout advocate of World Peace, advocating fighting war with its own instruments. Yet when I had seen two reels of his dreams, there seemed nothing to say. He went out of the room, and none...
...happy masses, simply a place where wars started. Even such tiny fragments of the masses as detached themselves temporarily for cultural adventuring in Europe seldom penetrated the interior as far as Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with Berlin, and even to a slight extent with Vienna and Moscow. The barrier of distance plus the barrier of language, almost insuperable except to the penetrating student, blocked cultural roads to Budapest. Then some wandering prospector struck dramatic gold, Liliom was produced, and Hungary became the cynosure of caravans of U. S. theatre men hurrying across the wastes...
...That the increase of personnel required and of cost has been slight, due to the superior efficiency of men working shorter hours...
Coming back to town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher...
...Slight, with light, sandy hair, blue eyes, quiet, intense ways, she gives an immediate impression of great friendliness. She believes thoroughly in people and in life. She wants happiness for people and she is willing to make real sacrifices to create it for them. Her great ambition now is to be a fine teacher, and, if need be, she intends to give up writing in order to become one, and has accepted a position as a teacher for next year. I sat in some of her classes and they were unusual for their discussions. She seems peculiarly fitted to draw...