Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from President Hart and the other Caribbean-ruling Bostonians is United Fruit's de facto head, Sam Zemurray. He is thin, bony, angular, with black domineering eyes and a hawk nose. Tropical-sun-tanned, he might be a Spaniard. He speaks English with a slight accent except when he is cursing, speaks Spanish with no accent at all. He is quiet in public, precisely dressed, has never been interviewed and likes to be left alone. His name appears neither in Who's Who nor in the New Orleans Social Register. His daughter Doris two years ago married...
Calvin Coolidge was that abomination of doctors-a self-physicker. For some days before his heart attack, said his Secretary Harry Ross last week, "he had been complaining of slight attacks of indigestion. He did not call his physician for these attacks, but treated himself with household remedies...
Tufts is conceded a slight margin over the Harvard team, having beaten the Lowell Textile squad 34-80 last Saturday. Harvard has thus far failed to win a game this year, bowing to Boston University, 22-19, and Princeton...
...tutorial system could be of more value to students, in my opinion, if they were given more time by a slight reduction of course requirements. I have observed great benefits from the reduction to three courses in the senior year...
...music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries. And Wagner's supreme failure was in his attempt to make music an auxiliary to drama, or to tie the abstract to the particular. Although the essays are slight in scope, their influence has already been great...