Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medley relay, for little Eddie Genung would never have a chance in the last lap against big Tom Hampson. With this and the javelin-throw the British Empire might get a tie. The runners got set for the medley. Pete Bowen, best of U. S. quarter-milers, gained a slight advantage over Alex Wilson of Canada. He fumbled giving the baton to Eddie Tolan and ten yards were lost. But then George Simpson, Ohio State's "Buckeye Bullet," cut five yards off the lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed...
...good day's bag of Scotch grouse is 80. Once before reputable witnesses Lord Walsingham shot 1,070 brace of grouse between breakfast and supper. Occasionally beaters instead of grouse are hit, and then damages must be paid. One U. S. sportsman who gave $500 for a slight injury warned his friends that his generosity had stimulated other bearded gillies to come too near the guns. When a beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels...
...rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements are negligible. Brooding over their Icelandic slight, last week the Faroe Islanders took action...
...work in the Veterans' Bureau it was a pleasure a few minutes ago, upon a necessarily hasty perusal of TIME (July 21) to see looking from its pages the face of our "Big Boss" General Hines. Will you give space in your interesting columns for a slight tribute from one of the many thousands who work under General Hines, and who feel the quiet strength of his personality pervading the atmosphere of the entire Veterans' Bureau, shortly to be known as-give me time-Oh yes -as the "Veterans' Administration"? How about putting his picture...
Birds. With 8,000 barnyard birds clucking & crowing, with poultry experts from 61 nations present, H. R. H. the Duke of York opened the World Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...