Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saying. That I get from the daily papers and that I do not get in TIME any better nor in fact as well. What makes TIME attractive to its readers is the gently "snappy" way in which its items are written and its pose of sophistication, knowingness and slight derisiveness which is now the fashion. To me, whose business it is to know what is taking place in the world, TIME has nothing what ever to offer, except the comments of its staff and they have not the faintest interest. I have seen the magazine now and then and have...
...scarcely in a spirit of playfulness that Henry Ford first turned the spot-light onto Mellie Dunham, onetime citizen of Norway, Maine. Nor did he to exploit the slight talents of an old man merely for the sake of kindness. In the clever way of great men, he is pulling the strings behind a stupid venture, quite as unpractical as his unfortunate Peace ship a few years back. He hopes, with Mr. Dunham's aid, to revolutionize the disgraceful state of modern dancing...
...While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward, or a master's clerk...
...Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...solution. Two years ago the Student Council, in response to an obviously unsatisfactory situation, abolished the undergraduate board and placed the Register in the hands of a professional editor. The first year of the new plan saw the Register issued on December 18, an improvement, even if slight, over old conditions. This year the relapse to the accustomed delay brings the problem back again, more aggravated than before...