Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that the children "do not have analgesia or loss of any type of sensibility. They are merely indifferent to pain...
...work of a slight, courtly, 50-year-old professor of English at Kenyon College, The World's Body is a collection of 15 essays ranging from discussion of the form of Milton's Lycidas to a review of a novel by Rebecca West. It includes a highly civilized polishing off of Philosopher George Santayana, a neat dismemberment of T. S. Eliot for Murder in the Cathedral, similarly effective attacks on Edna St. Vincent Millay and Critic I. A. Richards. A polite executioner, Professor Ransom never fails to call attention to the courage of his victims, to the elegance...
...complacently smoked a pipe in violation of the Society's house rules, reported that the measurements of lunar motion which he started making a half-century ago have recently been rechecked with the help of modern calculating machines. Dr. Brown remarked with evident amusement that only two extremely slight errors had been found, both amounting to less than 1/100 of a second of arc on the curve...
Fortnight before, Jackie, at 23 a slight, blotchy-faced young man with a thinning patch of muddy blonde hair where once grew the Kid's famous Dutch-boy bob, had sued for an accounting of the great fortune he was sure he had amassed. From the San Fernando Valley mansion that Jackie's talents paid for, came the hurt and indignant cry of an outraged mother, the shrewd two-cents' worth of a storybook stepfather...
...World Christianity by Missionary Horace Underwood. is that the ceremonies at Shinto shrines are no more religious than those in which floral offerings are placed in Lincoln Memorial or on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. As Missionary Underwood described a Shinto ceremony, it involves "making a slight inclination of the head and body" when a command is given which means: "Respectful Salute!" Wrote he: "No genuflection or prostration is required." Furthermore, the Government permits Christians to declare publicly that they attach no religious importance to the ceremonies. Finally. Missionary Underwood pointed out that closing mission schools would...