Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should not be excessive, so that there is perforce a certain amount of compromising between the two aims mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, and it is only by extremely careful management that satisfactory results can be obtained. As a matter of fact the dining hall operations have shown a slight surplus in recent years after all expenses, which expenses, by the way, do not include any allowance for investment in plant and equipment, which amounts to over...
Cause. Last week the American Railway Association reported a slight rise in railroad accidents in 1934, attributed it to the increase in rail traffic over 1933. In the first eight months of 1934 nine passengers, 57 employes were killed. For last week's highly extraordinary series of rail mishaps Association officials had two explanations: 1) coincidence; 2) the fallibility...
While many of the facts concerning the Senior Marshal recount, which places Herman Gundlach, Jr. ahead of E. Francis Bowditch by a slight margin, are still missing, it is essential that this awkward situation be cleared up immediately...
...escape but when they incite a group of convicts to rebel, they not only get themselves badly stoned but end up in the hands of the local duke. This gentleman seeks to pacify the Don by humoring his delusions. The old Knight of the Mournful Countenance, however, detects a slight, wanders off once more to joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble...
...production was the same for all four scenes, with slight alterations, and represented the battle-ments of Thebes with bare stone stops leading to the walk below the parapet. This gave the whole production a classical and severe aspect, matching well the tone of the play. In general the whole production was done with the skill of professionals...