Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice the Navy therefore gave a slight edge to Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews' defending "Blacks" as they steamed to sea in cruise formation (standard with all navies) to protect the vital Panama Canal from salty Vice Admiral E. C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus' attacking "Whites...
...adept music-writer after another. Nearly every younger modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome...
Fortnight ago, TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, having fallen steadily during January, was tidily up. Whether this marked the beginning of a new upward trend remained in doubt last week as the Index showed a slight decline of .4 points-from 99.2 to 98.8. The public's spending was off everywhere except in financial centres, where the North American Co.'s $105,000,000 refunding produced a spurt-which is likely to prove brief since no big capital issues are scheduled for the next few weeks...
Frederick Ecker saw nothing but good in this vastness. Slight, white-haired and precise at 71, he appeared in a natty pin-stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would...
...most fundamental drawback to the plan is the fact that there is, at present; no trophy. If "athletics for all" is to be furthered, some kind alumnus must donate a trophy whose slight cost would be infinitesimal compared to the good it would do in spurring each Harvard undergraduate on to develop a "mens sana in corpore sano...