Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While they lost last year by a slight margin to the Eli boat, this year the Crimson lightweights take their place at its stakeboat as favorites. The Harvard crew will be boating four veterans behind last year's stroke, and should make an excellent showing against Yale...
Opened with simple readings and invocations by such diverse characters as radical Bishop Francis John McConnell of the late Northern church, reactionary Bishop James Cannon of the late Southern church, the Conference got under way when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
...show successfully showed that U. S. artists have done well by their country. Its catalogue, also, was a triumph, as few exhibition catalogues ever are (see col. 1). Slight, scholarly A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...charge of advertising and publicity. > Marvin W. Smith, manager of engineering of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., became a vice president. > Richard ("Bobby") Weil Jr. became president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co., whose $30,000,000 annual sales make it the fourth biggest U. S. department store. Slight, abrupt President Weil is a 31-year-old Yaleman, son of Minnie Straus, whose family owns both Bamberger's and Manhattan's big R. H. Macy & Co. Also announced last week: the retirement at 83 of Board Chairman Louis Bamberger...
Nono. In appearance Joyce is slight, frail but impressive. He stands five feet ten or eleven, but looks as if a strong wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...