Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house his home for forty years. Miss Longfellow remained in the house all her life, active in the work of building the new Cambridge, but by her presence keeping alive the old Cambridge that for Harvard and Harvard men will always be a story cherished with other things as slight...
...lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There is a slight extension of the mischief in the lung...
...sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student goes the honor of out pointing and outwitting the British genius for debate. To the British genius for fair play goes the honor...
Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
...been U. S. Minister to China (1920-21), campaigner for Woodrow Wilson, member of his diplomatic mission to Russia. In 1919 he was commissioner on mandates in Turkey. He is President of Trustees of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. But governmental and business missions are but slight reason for Mr. Crane's voyaging. His wayfaring is that of the perpetual explorer. He is a successful Ponce de Leon who continually finds lost, shining cities. "I discovered Asia in 1878," he says, with the air of one who had hitherto led a purblind, provincial existence. Russia alone...