Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long distance telephone calls to his office in the Wrigley Building. Often they lasted for an hour or two. Sometimes they came from California. Sometimes they came from Arizona. Fortnight ago, the calls stopped abruptly. It was announced that Bill Wrigley was ill in Phoenix. Not seriously, just a slight heart attack following acute indigestion. A week later, another telephone call came from Phoenix, but it was not from Mr. Wrigley. Death had come to him early that morning, peacefully, while he slept...
...mild outbreak of digestive disturbances among more than a score of persons dining in the Harvard Medical School dormitory, Vanderbilt Hall, has been grossly exaggerated by published stories. The matter was investigated immediately, and the fact established that the illnesses were very slight. All this occurred some days ago. There has been no further outbreak and there is no likelihood of a recurrence of the malady...
...program of the afternoon will be opened with a description of the situation in Manchuria to provide a slight background with which to preclude the actual hearings of the League Council which it provoked...
...heat of the patriotic enthusiasm prevalent during 1917 and 1918 many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...