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Word: slightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McKay laboratory seems to be a rationalization. Few will deny that it is better to study modern turbines including all the latest devices and principles than to study obsolete turbines. Graduates say that the turbines in use there now are 1910 models, constructed at a time when there was slight knowledge of them. Recent developments have made 1910 turbines obsolete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITHER ENGINEERING SCHOOL | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Slight error. Congressman Shoemaker's editor-publisher days were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...since Lowell and Eliot plan to have two crews on the river this year and Kirkland, Leverett, Winthrop and Dunster will each have one. The outcome of the baseball and tennis matches cannot be predicted so early in the season, but hopes for victory in the golf encounter are slight since Yale always excels in that sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL MATCHES SCHEDULED WITH YALE | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...been felt that to lighten requirements for those who graduate in three years would encourage departure from the normal four-year standard. However, those who seek a three-year degree at the present time do so only for special reasons, and a slight relaxation of requirements would probably not increase this small number. Students seeking a degree in three years do nearly as much tutorial work as all other students and take courses equally advanced. To make possible for the course reduction that all others receive, with fifteen courses required for a degree and possible remission of one course during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE YEAR COURSE | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...this new anesthetic is called, may open a new field in the prevention of pain. If we can judge by the report of the doctors of Mt. Sinai Hospital, the drug can be used under almost any circumstances, and, most especially, its effect on the heart is quite slight compared to chloroform and ether. Since quick injection in emergency cases is provided by the convenience of the hypodermic injection, it will doubtless become an essential part of the ambulance surgeon's equipment. From dentist to veterinary, this achievement will mean the opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/23/1934 | See Source »

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