Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herman Brix, world's champion 16-pound shot putter, and Coach Boyd Comstock, both of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, were visitors at Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...
James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, was scheduled to go to Geneva last week to plead for the peace of the world. He did not go. Instead, he retired to a nursing home to be operated on for what his doctors called "a slight and progressive diminution of the vision of the left eye," and the precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return...
...Columbia College had 227 students and several buildings at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...
...window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much more slowly in a slight flurry of snow. When Irving Jaffee of New York won, after outmaneuvering the Norwegian champion Ivar Ballangrud, the U. S. team had 29 points, more than its total in the Winter Olympic games of 1924. Next day, Shea won the 1,500-meter race, spurting at the start of the last...
...more concern to executives than copywriters is Macy's stand on cash and prices. Famed are the merchandising wars caused in the past by Macy's offer to undersell each & every rival by at least 6%. Lately the store, under pounding from the Better Business Bureau, has made a slight retreat. The once unreserved boast now reads: "It is a Macy policy to sell its merchandise for at least 6% less than it could if it did not sell exclusively for cash...