Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...
...separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled...
Statistics show that the teams were even in number of first downs and yards gained by running. Princeton had a slight edge in passing although Allerdice was quite effectively checked by an improved and alert Harvard secondary. It was kicking that made the breaks, with the Crimson not only bottled by Peters' boot but set back by three blocked punts on Sprener...
...Devine tightened his grasp on the regular left end position over Gene Lovett by holding forth at that station all afternoon. And Club Peabody now rates a slight edge on Don Lowry in their nip-and-tuck scrap for the starting left guard assignment. Dick Pfister is his running mate at right guard...
...smoke-blackened, pseudo-Renaissance pile of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh come canvases from all over Europe and the U. S. for the Carnegie International, world's biggest competitive show of contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public...