Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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-because of your small stature and of the uplifted glance of a people whose 'eyes have seen the glory' and whose purpose is intent on the inspired leadership of your neighbor and my friend Franklin Roosevelt...
Inconsolable was Louise Turck Stanton, a slight, dark-haired woman of 32. She had her husband's casket brought to the Turck home where they had spent their one year of married life. She slept beside it on a daybed in the reception hall. After the funeral she resumed her flying which two years before had led to her romance with Gordon Stanton at the municipal airport...
...good burghers of the town, was unable to sign his name, reveals another visit to the College on January 3, with James Alling, the willing Freshman, fetching the pint to be again "mixt with sugar and water." The action of the college seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah Arrington, and their accomplices, that we owe these records of seventeenth century Freshmen, their experiments with liquor...
...intramural football league, only two games were forfeited, while 225 men took part in the sport. This was a slight increase over last year, and the calibre of football played was distinctly better...
...series of German films sponsored either by the University or through the courtesy of some interested group has become especially evident. Although it may be true that Nazi propaganda has gone far towards maiming the current cinema in Germany, there are many less recent productions, readily available at slight expense, whose worth goes undisputed. Even the silent films made by such artists as Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt display a subtlety of touch seldom if ever matched in the Hollywood mill...