Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third base respectively, the position they occupied on last year's nine. At shortstop E. H. McGrath '31, captain of last season's Freshman team seems to have the call. The choice of a second baseman is Coach Mitchell's main problem. F. E. Nugent '30 has a slight edge over A. G. Whitney '29 in the race for this post...
...much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...
...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...discussed. Here Doctor Hawes is entirely on the side of the patient, and does not spare his fellow-practitioners who object to having their judgment questioned. On the other side of the picture he arraigns the excitable patients who send for their doctor at unreasonable hours on slight pretexts...