Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the publication by Scribner's of the Sunday afternoon addresses given in the Lecture Course in Religion. T. G. Frank 2G., Chairman, are materialising in accordance with the plan outlined by Mr. Shimer in his report for 1924-25, with but slight variations. There has been an average attendance of 138 at these lectures, of which there have been 18 as follows: Professor C. H. Moore, "The Religion of College Men"; Professor G. F. Moore, "Religion, its History"; Professor J. B. Pratt, Williams College, "Religion, Its Psychology"; Professor T. N. Carver, "Religion, Its Basis in Economic Fact"; Professor...
...report also shows that exactly one half of the class, a slight increase over the previous year, were admitted from public schools. The percentage of those refused admission is 56 per cent from public schools and 44 per cent from private schools or tutors...
...appointed legal aid to the prohibition administrator in Minnesota. Now in the Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare...
Trembling with rage and stumbling in his nervousness, M. Malvy himself mounted the tribune. A slight, dark man with large prominent eyes, his voice was heard only occasionally over roars of "Traitor!" "Chacal!" "Resign!" "Scelerat!" "Pig!" "Traitor...
...European currency since the Dawes plan stabilized the German mark. At Brussels, Finance Minister Janssen was flayed by the Opposition for having allegedly withdrawn in part the support of the Government in "pegging" the franc. While the true cause of the break remained obscure, it was rumored that a slight devaluation of the franc to a point where it may be more firmly pegged is contemplated...