Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach H. L. Cowles is entering the same eight men who played Saturday, in a series of six singles matches and three doubles. There are slight changes in the lineup, E. B. Ward '30 having advanced to No. 5 and Arthur Ingraham...
...Reading Period's agenda, and seemingly only one, remains a theme of speculation: the suspension of tutorial conferences. Although any characteristic attitude is as rare among tutors as it is among students in Harvard College, there has been in both groups a slight but perceptible diminishment in the belief that such segregation would give completely mutual benefit...
...Athens. Said he, after surveying Corinth: "Nothing but a heap of ruins remains. No house can be repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
Spectacular was the defeat of Socialist leader Leon Blum, though his party made slight gains. All important members of the Poincare Sacred Union Cabinet regained their Chamber seats, including famed mathematician and War minister Paul Painlevé whose re-election seemed doubtful last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Finally a flurry was caused by the election from Alsace-Lorraine of three candidates who desire for their homeland a regional government, semi-independent of France. Since the Prime Minister had personally appealed to Alsace-Lorrainers to show themselves "French without reserve, without consideration, without reticence!" (TIME, Feb. 27) the three elected Regionalists...
Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden, publisher of the Manhattan Evening Graphic and other periodicals which wear the disguise of shockingly slight physicul-turism, last week purchased a school for boys, The Castle Heights Military Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...