Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found themselves agreeing largely with the objecting lines: That although the route would be shorter the present through routes handle the traffic adequately; that most of the traffic of the new route would be secured at the expense of existing routes, thereby reducing their revenues; that except for a slight time-saving to the public on through shipments, the proposed route was likely to produce little except new financial difficulties in railroad finance...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...
...coagulates. This is a very necessary quality for when there is a lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...
...books taken from public libraries. French physicians, Drs. Touchais and Moureau, have found germs of tuberculosis on the pages of books subjected to experiment after four or five months. Nevertheless, extensive studies made in this country cause physicians to believe that the chance of infection from such material is slight. Modern hygienists recommend that books used by persons suffering with severe infectious diseases be burned if of little value, and be disinfected by thorough airing and sunning and possible subjection to formaldehyde vapors if of greater value...
...slight shift in the University Crew A was announced last night. Donald Murchie '28 will take the place of J. W. Dunlop '28 at number two in the first boat, leaving the seating as follows: Stroke, Robert Winthrop '26, captain; 7, Kent Leavitt '26; 6. J. P. Hubbard '26; 5, Geoffrey Platt '27; 4, C. F. Darlington '26; 3, J. R. Barry '27; 2, Donald Murchie '28; bow, J. H. Perkins '27; cox, W. E. Beer '26. Seating in the other boats remains unchanged...