Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With only 400 yards left, both crews were rowing 37 and Eliot still had a slight lead, but Kirkland was coming back and they crossed the finish line the winner by a narrow margin in 7:14.6 Winthrop was three lengths back...
...Monday the dress rehearsal was staged, and it went off like clockwork except for slight difficulties among the harnessing group. For at least two of the horses refused to submit to amateur harnessers, and one of the beasts created a small panic by promptly lying down when his girth was tightened by inept hands...
...order to become a serious contender for the championship, Mitchell must find or develop another pitcher. A1 Colwell, veteran catcher, has an excellent slow ball and slight curve, but his ability to last nine innings is uncertain. With Dick Walsh and Don Prouty evidently unable to make the grade, Mitchell's only alternative is Slim Curtiss, who hurled winning ball for the undefeated Freshman nine last year...
...sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming, hardly any noise." Captain Pruss said nothing, held incommunicado by doctors who gave him "a 50-50 chance to live...
Professor Otto Stern of Carnegie Institute of Technology observed that hydrogen Drotons escaping through a small aperture become ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...