Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accrued more and more power to itself, and with legal sanction, until today some cities own public utilities, regulate housing, and even determine the esthetic value of the beauty of billboards along the public highways. He stated: "New questions are constantly arising for decision and the old, with slight variations, are being re-examined and distinguished in the light of newer interest and popular sympathy which subconsciously influence judicial decision. Progress is not constant and steady. There are advances and then reactionary relapses, but the general movement is onward and upward...
Naturally a mean must be reached to avoid impossible conditions for the speaker. Even if he were placed at a disadvantage, however, his difficulties with a slight resonance would hardly be comparable to those of a choir without it. All that is needed to improve the musical acoustics is to remove the padding from under the carpets, and to replaster, or paint over smoothly, the rough finish ceiling. Certainly the expense of these changes, besides being negligible, would be well worth the consequent improvement in the effectiveness of both the music and the service itself...
...Harvard station will be able to record practically every earth shock of any force occurring anywhere on the earth, and will not only give the time of the quake but its precise location. Although destructive earthquakes are relatively infrequent, there being approximately 100 every year, slight quivering of the earth's surface are being recorded constantly
...slight variation in both increase and decrease is shown in the figures on enrollment published in this year's University Catalogue which is to be released on Thursday, December 1. There is little change in the number of administrative and teaching officers as compared with last year when a sensational increase was shown in this department...
...expenses. The income for varsity football was $483,750.98 as against an expense of $110,776.97. This item includes all costs of the stadium contests. Every varsity major sport team except the varsity track team decreased its expenses in comparison with 1930-31. The varsity track team showed a slight increase because of the expenses involved in the Oxford-Cambridge trip. Notable was the reduction in the expenses of the crew to $27,688.70 as against $42,425.84 in 1930-31. Administration and other expenses were reduced to $102,973.12 as against $130,795.05 in the previous year. The expenses...