Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From one of his own subordinates last week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...
Though Cornell is reported to have a team equal in ability to the Feslermen, the Crimson is ceded a slight edge. Syracuse presents a team of higher caliber...
With this information, it is frequently possible to determine frauds or to find out who actually painted a picture. "In the paintings," Burroughs said, "there are many slight variations in the way the paint is applied and the type of stroke the painter uses...
...Pudding Full of Plums" is a slight play; it lacks body. It is a talky play; its action is very limited. On the other hand it has some characters who have reason for being; it has a problem worth consideration, a problem which the playwright solves justifiably and logically, and it has--best of all--dialogue which is nearly always convincing and very often genuinely witty. By Eliot Norton "Boston Post...
...editor of The Walther League Messenger, professor at Concordia Seminary. Chubby, dimple-chinned Dr. Maier, 42, is a harddriving, popular teacher, a hard-working editor who dictates daily to three secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys...