Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a Canadian has been impressed by Franklin Roosevelt's preachment of "the more abundant life." Last week one of the most impressed Canadians, slight, smart, sandy-haired Robert Cromie, editor-publisher of the Vancouver Sun, attended a Roosevelt press conference. "What would you say was the social objective of the Administration?" asked Newshawk Cromie. Obligingly, the President replied to his friend from over the border, waiving the White House rule against direct quotation...
...death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
Every student is requested by the post office authorities either to notify his letter carrier or file a change of address at the Cambridge Post Office before leaving the city. This rehandling of mail may necessitate a slight delay in delivery...
After an almost even start, the Sailors soon held a slight lead, trailed by Harvard and Penn. As they passed the half-way mark, the Quakers slid into the lead, with the Crimson boat considerably in the rear. The leaders alternated for first place on the remaining stretch, and in the last hundred yards both pushed their beat into the 40's, the last smooth sweeps of the Penn crew allowing it to retain its narrowing lead over the checking Navy boat...
Harmon White Caldwell is 36* and dean of the university's Lumpkin Law School. A slight, boyish bachelor, he has clean-cut features, flawless Southern manners and a bashfulness in the presence of women which betrays a life spent at his books & business. Some thirty years ago he was distinguishing himself as the smartest boy in Haralson, Ga. Twenty years ago he was the smartest student at Boys' High School at Atlanta. He spent two years going through the University of Georgia, two more teaching, before he entered Harvard Law School in 1921. Graduated, he taught for three...