Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean pointed out that 47 per cent of the graduate school residents, a slight but encouraging increase, did full time work toward advanced degrees, and that the experiment of relieving exceptionally brilliant scholars from working their way through had functioned satisfactorily in its first two years. He noted, however, that there were still 409 students unable to devote their entire time to study because of the necessity of earning money...
Under People in TIME, Jan. 25, you have an item about Admiral Byrd, which needs a slight correction. It is true he did arrive ahead of schedule, and some of the committee who were to meet him came after he did, but we knew him at once. However, while we were talking with him, a Salvation Army lass came up with a ticket in her hand and wanted some information about trains. Although we joked about it, we all were impressed by his courteous and kindly treatment of the lady. How different some of the travelers, that stop off from...
...Four. Indeed, Swift & Co., No. 1 meat handler of the U. S., reported a sharp drop in profits ($17,651,000 to $12,103,000) in spite of the fact that sales were $831,671,000 and tonnage at an all-time peak. Wilson & Co. showed a slight decline ($4,068,000 as against $4,109,000). Basic reason for this countertrend in a year of expanding industrial earnings was the confusion in meat markets caused by invalidation of AAA processing taxes and the subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter a vast number of animals they could not feed...
Those scenes which are not devoted to the fascinating finance of Orloff are, for the most part, dull--particularly those in which Antony makes casual love to Niki. Allison Skipworth supplies slight comedy relief...
Liquidated in Montreal last week was a rudimentary but successful investment trust called "The Company of Adventurers Trading in Forgotten Bonds (complete personal gullibility)." Original Adventurers were two young and frisky employes of the investment house of Drury & Co.: lanky, laconic John Charles Rogers and slight, sad-eyed Gordon Macfarlane Gifford. In 1935 they formed a pool with 63 others, gambled $605 on the possible appreciation of some of the lowest bonds they could find. Last week when the bonds were sold each Adventurer received $33.10 on an investment of $10. From the company's final report...