Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear that there is only one solution to the problem. Raising the rate two dollars a week would mean ony a slight expense for six weeks. This suggestion has often been made by students who feel that the improvement would be more than worth the extra charge, and should be entertained more seriously than hitherto. Instead of furnishing menus that are just sufficiently tempting to keep back a torrent of complaints, Lehman Hall would do well to avoid the appearance of making reductions for the students' benefit and provide more attractive meals, regardless of the inconsequential increase in price...
...sworn statement that none of his transactions has violated the law. Refiners must do likewise. Railroad and pipeline companies likewise must have substantial proof under oath that the oil they are asked to transport is legally produced, and must report monthly. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt had a slight cold. He had succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset...
Last week Potter Palmer Jr. bought it back for an estimated $1,500,000. He proposed to develop it as a smart hotel. A slight, shy, curly-headed man who dislikes society as much as his father did, Potter Palmer Jr. lives quietly in an Astor Street triplex apartment filled with Chinese art (he is president of Chicago's Art Institute). He and his beauteous wife, now summering at Bar Harbor, have four children and though Potter III has a daughter, there is as yet no Potter...
Problems, Well did General Johnson know that such pay raises as occurred in the past fortnight were influenced by a slight business upturn, were not primarily due to President Roosevelt's Recovery Act. Before the Recovery Act could be given its head, to show whether any democracy can plan its economic future, many a snarly special problem had yet to be thrashed out. Samples...
...total of 2148 degrees is 57 less than the number last year, reflecting the slight inroads of the depression. Of these, 680 went to undergraduates in the College, 550 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts (229 with honors), and 130 that of Bachelor of Science (38 with honors). Thus more than one-third of those graduating in the College received honors...