Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter of 1873 Harvard declined an invitation to jon Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, and Princeton in forming an Intercollegiate Association. The reason being that the other four were playing a form of Rugby with slight variations at each college, but a game totally different from the one developed at Cambridge, and Harvard was satisfied with its own game. As usual Harvard was accused of "high hatting" the other institutions...
With a few conspicuous exceptions, the new cars look remarkably alike. Only a slight exaggeration is Packard's claim that it is "the one 1936 car on the roads . . . you can recognize." Chromium radiator grilles are almost universal. Horns are recessed. Headlights spring out horizontally from the radiator shell like the two eyes of a rangefinder. Lower lines are horizontal, often more decorative than functional...
...settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance" presents Miss Gladys George as a big star with some very amusing lines and situations. "Pride and Prejudice" opened Wednesday night and received almost unconditional approval from the savants. "A Slight Case of Murder" is approximately slightly amusing. "Squaring The Cricle" is a Soviet comedy which is apparently funnier to Slavs than Americans. The Lunts are circusing through "The Taming of The Shrew" for the Theater Guild and doing a first class job; this should be seen. "Three...
...wish to respectfully point out a slight error (slight, my foot, a very grave error), in reporting the American Legion parade. On p. 15, Oct. 7 issue I quote: "The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat." Since when did a ripsnortin' Wyoming cowpuncher resemble a Nebraskan cowhand...
...husband heard her frantic screams, lugged her and a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy, who suffered only a few slight bruises on his head, from the 40-ft. pit. Afraid to do anything else, he wrapped wife and child in blankets, drove both twelve miles to a hospital where Dr. John Franklin Foster, child specialist, put them in good condition...