Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the League was formed, Mexico was suffering one of her periodic revolutions, and, considered unworthy by lantern-jawed President Wilson, was not invited to join. Last week in Geneva, bald, eagle-beaked Viscount Cecil publicly admitted his partial responsibility for this slight, apologized...
...Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston, held the championship for seven years. He might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th U. S. Lawn Tennis Championship...
...following institutions anticipated enrolments equal to or slightly greater than last year: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley. Dartmouth, New York University, Yale. Princeton, Stanford. The University of Chicago expected a larger freshman class than ever, planned to be "prudent" financially. Substantially increased enrolments were expected by Drew University, Madison N. J. (it inherited from $7,000,000 to $12,000,000 from Manhattan's landowning Wendel family last March-TIME, April 6), Duke (10% over last year), University of California, College of the City of New York, Cornell. Rutgers University reported a slight decrease. The Universities of Wisconsin and Washington expected...
...Styrian Alps in Austria, lightning struck a woman wearing a gold necklace, melted the necklace, gave the woman a slight shock...
Depression's influence on sailing this summer has been slight; on steam and power yachts more noticeable, though with notable exceptions. The new Morgan Corsair, launched in 1930, has crossed the Atlantic six times, once in record time (for steam yachts) to Southampton (7 days, 7 hr.). A dozen or more new yachts have been placed in commission this year; the biggest is Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader's 407-ft. 10 in. Savarona, built in Germany at an estimated cost of $5,000,000. Now being built for Edward F. Hutton at Kiel is a square-rigged...