Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary reports from New England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...
...tried to save him. Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre sent him a wire elaborately requesting his presence at the White House in the middle of the campaign. Third candidate was Representative Ross Collins, who went out in the first primary but Senator Stephens' lead was so slight that a run-off was called...
...Ontario businessmen built for them 100 yd. from the bustling farmhouse where they were born four months ago (TIME, June 11 et seq.). Though it was raining pitchforks Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe would brook no delay. Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again pregnant...
...legalize birth control or liberalize divorce laws, had nothing to say publicly against lotteries. Their Church's attitude is that under proper circumstances gambling is not sinful. Indeed the Papal States used to run lotteries as do many Catholic nations today.* And to a realist there is slight moral difference between a cash lottery and a raffle such as many a church, Catholic and Protestant alike, employs to raise money for pious causes...
English 28, the famed English literature "vaudeville" course in which Professors George Lyman Kittredge and John Livingston Lowes are among the headliners, was given a slight edge in the guide over English 79, a similar course. English 79 supervisors accordingly noticed an unusually small turnout when the course held its first meeting yesterday...