Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this concession, slight as it is, is denied Freshmen. Yale evidently entertains suspicions of all young men who have not been inoculated against moral disaster by a year of her special brand of religious nursing. "The incoming Freshmen," says the report, "will still be required to attend every day, their service coming at an earlier part of the morning...
...Capitol there is an organization known as Guides. For a slight compensation they lead visitors around the building and explain it to them. The Vice President's Chamber is adjacent to the Senate Chamber and so small that it is necessary to keep the door open in order to obtain the necessary cubic feet of air to survive. When he is in the room these guides point him out as though he were a curiosity. I stood this as long as I could and then went to the door one day and said: 'If you look upon...
...entertain a slight bias, he being director and chief librarian of the British Museum, a onetime (1917-21) President of the British Academy, a member of numerous societies and academies devoted to classical culture, a scholar deeply steeped in Oxford tradition and repeatedly honored by universities from Athens to Ohio...
Among the leading 12 U. S. cities, Boston alone showed a slight increase. No change was apparent in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis during the past year. But in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, the trend toward lower rents was unmistakable...
...Manhattan in the kitchen of a restaurant, one Ho Kee, a cook, was mixing curry. A slight noise made him glance behind him; a face like a soiled lemon wafer leered at him from the shadow of a barrel; a roaring flash filled the kitchen. The shot that killed him scorched his apron; he was buried with a .38 calibre revolver in his right hand that he might be equipped to revenge his murder in the next world...