Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILL OSBORNE, the orchestra leader, has only a slight connection with Yale. He once sued Rudy Vallee, Yale Alumnus, for a sum running past the $200,000 mark. Rudy, Will averred, had copied his crooning from Will Osborne. At that time Will's voice and vocal manner was so much like Rudy's that the radio public could rarely tell them apart...
...respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening of the arms, and a slight opisthotonos [arching of the back]." Commented Dr. George William Kosmak, conscientious editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: "I have no desire to belittle the effect of the report which we have just heard...
...Easter vacation. One had been given the air trip by his parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...
...Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England's queen Victoria, who doubtless acquired her taint from...
...competition assumes no previous photographic experience, although in the first week or two, familiarity with photographic methods will be a slight advantage. The CRIMSON owns two Graflex cameras, and it is with these that most of the pictures are taken, though in recent years several miniature cameras have shown their adaptability to news work. The competition aims chiefly at giving a thorough training in the fundamentals of photographic technique and developing the ability to recognize the news value of university activities...