Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noting this, astronomers at first concluded that the moon was off schedule but subsequent checks on other bodies proved earth to be at fault. Gratifying to clock manufacturers was his statement that the slight variation has some method. Earth would, said Dr. Brown, run fast for a number of years, then lag behind. Sudden changes in rotation rate were noted in 1897 and 1917. Causes for such behavior are unknown...
...benefit of the curious. She always left some token of her esteem, apparently a smaller one each year, until the last, occurring about five years ago, was a single rose. The children of the neighboring Harvard Grammar School obey instructions and occasionally file to the spot, to leave some slight offering, gaze in awe at the name which they vaguely remember having heard in some other connection, and quietly depart...
President of Majestic Household Utilities is, of course, Bertram James Grigsby slight, silent, leathery-faced chairman of Grigsby-Grunow. Vice president is William Carl Grunow, round-faced, grinning, shouting, cursing president of the radio company. Since they started in 1921 with $37,500 and a desire to "manufacture something," these two men have been "the works." Mr. Grunow is the boss, the plant man. His noisy way of getting things done personifies a factory just as Mr. Grigsby's silent financial maneuvers are typical of a bank. Perhaps Mr. Grigsby's shrewdest move has been sticking with...
...crews rowed at a stroke of about 32 per minute at the first, the third boat starting over the mile and three quarters course a few seconds before the Jayvees; which in turn was given a slight lead over the University boat. It was not until the mile mark that the first crew overtook the Jayvees, and just beyond the mile and a quarter mark that the University and the Jayvee oarsmen were able to overtake Crew C. The race ended in a wild dash for the finish as the first boat raised its stroke...
However, Mr. Young does not share Dr. Schacht's pessimism. Said he: "I have no fear of the slight political tinge which the Plan took on at The Hague." (Dr. Schacht holds that The Hague signatures hung an Allied sword over Germany's head; but Mr. Young cheerfully claimed that the ''military sanctions" provided in case of German refusals to pay have "a most attenuated form," can be ignored as a mere "tinge...