Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inflation. In the U. S. a slight tendency toward higher prices was observable. Some slowing up of food-to-market was expected which might result in higher prices for produce. Abroad, U. S. stocks tended to rise-but much less than would have been the case if any real danger of inflation had loomed...
...Although the income available for the Faculty has declined far below that originally estimated for 1932-33, the reductions in the Faculty budget are relatively slight. Salaries of all teaching officers, except those annual appointees whose salaries vary in direct proportion to the amount of work assigned them and are decreased or increased even in normal years in accordance with the work available for them, were not reduced, and the rate of salary paid teaching officers whose salaries are fixed by the work for which they are employed was not reduced. It is fortunate that past economies have made...
...principle back of the change of degree requirements was that tutorial work, which has now become in all fields having General Examinations an essential part of the work for the degree, demands much time of the student and that the time thus spent should be at least in slight part compensated for by a reduction in the amount of formal course work demanded. Of course, even with the new rules, a student conscientiously meeting the standards in his courses and also doing good tutorial work does much more than his predecessor in the College did before the establishment...
...Technocratic Terror" in a short space attacks Technocracy, Communism ("only a development of Marxism with a slight change of terminology"), and vigorously defends capitalism, private property, competition, and especially profit--the motivation of a perpetual capitalistic industrial advancement. Unemployment is explained thus, "under the market economy those who have only muscular power to sell must sell it in competition with mechanical power." Technocracy is the explanation of those who have not the brains to do what a machine cannot do, and Communism is the system made to foster these classes and keep them in power. Obviously the machine will overthrow...
...slight, cropped-haired person in a red brocaded dress. But Eunice Norton compassed it all neatly. Her fingers traveled easily and accurately through Bach's E Minor French Suite, clearly traced its complicated, interweaving patterns. The Andante from Weber's lovely, slightly faded A Flat Sonata was played with a tenderness surprising in a young person who by temperament seemed better suited to the brittle, contrapuntal ways of Hindemith...