Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper operating profits are figured before interest, taxes and various other charges. Last year after all charges Hearst Publications as a whole earned only $2,372,000, a slight gain over the year before but under the figure for 1934. Not the least startling item in Hearst Publications, Inc.'s accounting is the principal tangible asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock...
Both first and second eights will oppose the Orange and Black and M.I.T. on Lake Carnegie in Princeton. The crews will work out there twice today. Tom Bolles has developed one of the strongest eights in recent years to wear the Crimson, and they rank slight favorites to take the unknown Tiger eight into camp...
Except for a slight raggedness of singing and stage business, which may be ascribed to the fact that it was the opening evening, the performance ran off smoothly enough. Considering the magnitude of the stage effects and the number of changes, this is in the order of a compliment to the skillful production of Hassard Short. Imitating Hollywood to advantage, the producer has designed all sorts of clever and handsome sets that move about the stage with a rapidity that is as enjoyable to the spectators as the show itself. Possessing all the qualities of a best-seller musical comedy...
...famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying to his rescue before the polar sun came up, the slight Virginian noted in his diary: "The distance and detachment of this place seem to soften human follies. Others take on added significance. But from here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. It seems a great madness. If this attitude...
Taking a fling at the conduct of some of the other athletes on the boat, Eleanor claimed she did most of her drinking up; in the first class "among my friends," then, after a slight pause. "I hear I missed some pretty gay parties lower down...