Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...
...hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe's joke about 99 and 44-100% pure, or Demos telling about the Sophists, or some officer...
...Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous wry face at Joe Kennedy. In addition to being an implied slight to the 140,000 members of U. S. maritime unions, such schools might well become breeding places for finks (scabs). Had not Joe Kennedy himself once threatened that the naval militia might one day be called on to keep steam up during maritime strikes? But over Labor's objections...
According to astronomers, speed of the earth's rotation on its axis is affected by the moon. Reason: the moon pulls the tides, and a strong pull creates friction on the earth's surface, slows down its motion. This well-known fact, said Professor Brown, accounts for slight variations in the day's length, but the moon's influence is not powerful enough to cause such large changes in time as that which occurred in 1897, when the apparent length of the year was changed by one second. Practical reason for studying the phenomenon, he added...
...been observed. The process of expansion, said Dr. Brown, might conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth's surface which was at a critical temperature (one in which a small change of temperature produces a relatively large change of volume). Thus a slight change in the temperature of the earth's interior would produce a considerable alteration of the crust. How the earth contracts and expands Dr. Brown could only speculate. Evidence for his theory lies in the fact that the fissures all over the earth (such as occur in mountain building...