Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prayers by sending a wet dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...lectures will be open to the public, and a slight charge will be made to cover the necessary expenses...
...then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage?a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program made up of works she had heard long since and approved, pronounced him at the end of the evening far more impressive as a composer than as a pianist...
...from Belmont Hill throughout the game, which was played in the Arena yesterday afternoon, the Freshman skaters succeeded in netting a 12-0 victory over the schoolboys. In the warming up practice before the game, S. L. Batchelder '31, who was scheduled to play at right defense, received a slight injury, the puck hitting him in the eye, and was unable to take part in the game...
With the "comeback" of the rubber industry, Prudential Securities has made money on the Goodyear and Seiberling rubber company stocks, which it held. But Prudential Securities was created to help Mr. Seiberling, not to profit. Therefore, slight Mr. Seiberling and bulky Mr. Davis met in the Cleveland lawyers' office last week and dissolved the company. This relieved Mr. Davis of his $5,000,000 guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship...