Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard backfield will contain two men who have not, previous to this week, ever appeared as candidates for starting honors. These two are Arthur Oakes and Leo Ecker. Both have done a fine job in scrimmages but both will be working under the handicap of slight Varsity experience...
Definite proof of the Planet Mars being uninhabited is shown by recent astronomical investigation according to Loring B. Andrews, instructor in Astronomy who spoke at a public "Open Nights" lecture at the Observatory last night. He revealed that recent evidence shows the atmosphere of the planet too slight to sustain life...
Traveling time is a slight concession, but the conscientious student cannot take it without pangs of remorse, because classes are being missed. Besides, its allowance is made only at the beginning of the period, and those living far away must leave their happy firesides on New Year's Day. Of course Dean's Listers arrange their own calendars. But even their stolen bliss is soured a little when they compare their indolence to the industry of companions, and think of the accumulating pile of work...
Ever since great Marshal Josef Pilsudski's death last spring the Polish Government has been a Dictatorship without a Dictator. Last week the politico-military "Pilsudski Colonels," who rule with the kudos of the late Marshal, prudently decided to make some slight concessions to democratic Polish public opinion. Quietly, Colonel Walery Slawek resigned as Premier, was succeeded by his onetime Minister of Interior, Citizen Marjan Zyndram Koscialkowski. not a "Pilsudski Colonel." In the new Cabinet this week most of the Colonels kept their portfolios. But Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who has conducted Polish foreign policy for several years...
...Significance: Slight, except that it shows Canadians have not gone radical. The Liberals can be compared to pre-Roosevelt Democrats in the U. S., but just as President Roosevelt turned his party upside down once he gained the White House, so, as Premier, Mr. King must make sweeping leftward motions. His first reaction was to promise this week to set up a national commission to grapple with unemployment, spread public works. Cried...