Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only surprising thing is that there should be any delay about making a slight departure in the type of speaker. But this can be explained by the Governing Board's desire to give time for the solidifying of undergraduate opinion so that audiences may be assured...
...court. Efforts to break from this usage they usually consisted of a copying of the "Oxford Union" type of discussion; and the success with which this English institution has become acclimated at Harvard is illustrated by the interest which the Debating Union meetings have aroused. But except for a slight avoidance of technical presentation in the Triangular debate, the Debating Council has not departed far from the "American" style of proof and pleading...
...taxation and fiscal reform bills, after slight modification in the Senate, were passed by both Chamber and Senate. The vote in the latter house was 151 to 23. The bill is expected to increase Treasury receipts by 6,323,000,000 francs yearly from increased taxation, and effect 1,000,000,000 francs of economies...
...delay," sentence was last week pronounced. Burrill Ruskay, head of the firm, was found guilty of trading against the account of a customer. He must undergo a prison sentence of from three months to three years. Ruskay has appealed the case, however, so that even this slight punishment has a very theoretical aspect. In spite of the ex-bucketshop keeper's plea that he was penniless, he presented what has been termed a "brisk apearance" in court and seemed to be able to command the services of expensive legal counsel...
...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...