Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race of students bereft of all but a slight acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors prescribed by the College Board Examinations, he discovers Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato and Aristotle to us as living men. There comes with him a realization of what we have missed in escaping from the classical tradition...
What is true of Eliot, the national leader, is not true of Eliot, the man. Boston, Cambridge, and the Yard are filled with memories of splendid, dead Olympians. One more has been added to them, one whose slight, bent figure need dispute the gravel walk with none of them, yet one whose personal charm and living quality will become with each succeeding year less a tangible memory of living flesh and blood. It is safe to say that time will add to the lustre and the glory of his fame. It is equally sure that as a personal character...
...President's budget message asked Congress for appropriations of $4,014,571,124.60 to run the Government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928. This is only a slight increase over the 1927 figures, but a big leap from 1917 when citizens were first awed by "a billion dollar Congress...
...There are other features of the huddle which are of great value to the team which has the ball. It assures that the signal will be understood by the whole team. It allows for slight modifications in the plays to take advantages of weakness in the defense. Furthermore it allows men to be shifted in the lineup without attracting the attention of the defense, thus making better use of the available weapons in a perfectly legitimate manner...
...session by settling a controversy between Oklahoma and Texas (TIME, Oct. 25). Last week it drew a new boundary line between Michigan and Wisconsin, states which have lived side by side for more than a century. The new line, running from Lake Superior to Green Bay, is only a slight variation of the old and does not change the ownership of any important cities. It does, however, settle the ownership of numerous islands in Green Bay. The costs of the suit will be divided equally between the two states. Technically, neither...