Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago a strangely ineffective bomb thrown in his direction left His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, son of Heaven, untouched (TIME, Jan. 18). But it inflicted slight flesh wounds on the rears of two horses of the Imperial Guard. Into their stables last week came two Imperial grooms carrying two baskets brightly bedecked with the Imperial colors. By curious Japanese signs they tried to explain to the horses that these were a gift from the Emperor. Then they watched the two horses appreciatively devour their eight pounds of Imperial carrots...
Suddenly there was a slight stir all over the theatre, a muffled murmur as of an army leaving its bivouac for a night attack. Then the music stopped, an eighty year old man kissed a 300 pound woman and the curtain came trailing down. Amid applause the lights shot up and with them the audience. They had girded themselves well for this moment. Quick the exits. And Boston whirled out into the track outside the circle of boxes. The lights showed bravely on the brilliant ladies and the handsome men. How much the Vagabond had missed up there...
...been contributing to the cause of science by allowing experts from the Medical School to take samples of his blood while he is relaxed and then while he is in the heat of competition, it was learned yesterday. The corpuscular composition of the blood is believed to undergo some slight transformation under muscular and emotional stress and the medical authorities are trying to ascertain this change with Wood as the specimen. Wood has submitted to these blood tests after the football games this fall and now is giving samples of his blood after the hockey tilts...
Moreover the failure of the school to obtain any financial support whatever indicates that for the present at least there is no strong desire for dramatic instruction at Harvard. No doubt the depression increased the school's difficulty in acquiring funds. Nevertheless a slight response might have been expected if there had been any widespread and serious desire for a drama school at Harvard...
...reason: engine mufflers are ordinarily of only partial value because as much as half the noise of an airplane is made by the whirling propeller (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930). But geared en- gines turn big, high-pitched propellers at low speeds. In such engines propeller noise is comparatively slight. Last week Eastern Air Transport, whose Condor biplanes are powered by geared Conqueror engines, adopted a muffler which was said to reduce engine noise by 70% without loss of power. The muffler, developed by the company's Chief Engineer Ralph G. Lockwood, consists of an exhaust manifold more than twice...