Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Universities in the Commonwealth is that limiting the consumption of intoxicating beverages to those over twenty-one. Paradoxically, it is this portion of the law which has the least effect on those consuming liquor in restaurants and other public dispensaries. There is, in practice, only a very slight pretence at enforcement of this clause elsewhere than in places so rigidly controlled as the House Dining Halls. In any Boston restaurant or tavern, a boy of sixteen who is gifted with a mature face and bearing, may purchase enough liquor to interfere materially with the proper functioning of his limbs...
...many times a session will the Court be called upon to enter upon the question of the existence of the emergency? How much weight will the Courts give to the legislative flat which declares the existence of the emergency? Will our lower courts be swamped with cases at every slight upturn in business by litigants claiming that the national (or state or local) emergency has ceased to exist? The most likely answer is that the Courts will place more and more reliance upon the opinion of the legislatures in this matter. The dangerous consequences of this tendency are too obvious...
...actual value of the Hygiene course as it is now run is slight indeed. Most of the health advice dispensed is too well known to need any elucidation from the lecture platform, and the sex information is of the sketchy type that is given to the more impressionable members of the Y.M.C.A. It seems designed mainly to keep the boys away from "fast women"; a rather futile attempt one is tempted to think, considering the type of female company generally preferred by the Freshman just released from parental discipline and ready to find out about Life at the "Tent...
...highs of Greece and Rome to the 12th Century, when the index number was 2.7. As Christendom, galvanized by the Crusades, moved toward the Renaissance, the war indices started to climb by leaps & bounds. The index of the 15th Century was 31.12. of the 18th, 567.5. There was a slight downswing in the tranquil 19th; but in the first quarter of the World War century the number was 13,735.98-eight times the total of all preceding centuries...
...Away, slight men! You may have been leaders once. You are corporals of disaster now and a safe place for you may be yapping at the flanks but it is not safe to stand obstructing the front of this great army. You might be trampled underfoot - not knowingly but inadvertently - be cause of your small stature and of the up lifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is in tent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roose velt...