Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual student, a budget will bring welcome respite from the periodic appeals of harassed collectors. The economic advantages arising from a single payment instead of repeated donations may be slight, but the added convenience and simplification should be more than desirable. Even more important is the security and legitimacy which will be gained by the various charities which it has been customary for the University to support. The elimination of separate organizations for each drive and the centralization of the collection and expenditure of the funds in the hands of the Student Council suffice alone to warrant the step...
...Because of what was described by his physician as a slight cold, the President one day canceled all but two of his engagements, spent a minimum of time in his office and retired to the privacy of his bedroom...
...Freshman basketball team will not go to Exeter this afternoon as it was scheduled to do. Due to a slight epidemic of scarlet fever Exeter Academy has been quarantined and no teams can enter or leave the school precincts...
...Story begins in a Kentucky log cabin with one window, one door and a dirt floor. Lying on a pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste...