Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth of the matter, if such is possible, we have accepted the invitation of the Harvard CRIMSON to join in conducting a poll among University undergraduates. What the results of this poll may prove, we cannot definitely say. But we hope that it will be of some slight help in causing something to be done about what, in our opinion, is a most unsavory condition--the disrespect for law in the form of the Volstead Act and the terrific corruption in city and town governments resulting from efforts to "beat" that law. --Brown Dally Herald...
...Twentysix out of 31 university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. . . . With due respect for the judgment of those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News proposes to have a look at the facts...
...Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated love, frankly just a vehicle for Tenor McCormack. He sings eleven songs. His voice records beautifully, the slight metallic timbre of the talking machine eliminating the saccharine that makes McCormack cloying in his natural state. Song O' My Heart will undoubtedly be the greatest movie of the year to people who like "I Hear You Calling Me" on the phonograph. Silliest shot: McCormack's truelove dying...
...Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped the Harry from his full name (Harry Sinclair Lewis), later quarreled with Author Sinclair. Author Sinclair's books have been translated into many foreign languages; he is regarded in Germany and Russia as one of the foremost U. S. writers. Slight of frame, professorial, bespectacled, Author Sinclair lives in Pasadena, whence issue tirelessly books, propaganda, publicity, both Socialist and person. He has the smile of a fanatic. Other books: The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, The Brass Check, The Goose-Step, Boston, Singing Jailbirds (a play...
From the corners of Europe to the South Sea Islands, the Guggenheim Foundation exerts an influence, however slight, against the forces of ignorance. Philanthropy could have found no better object than in the organizing and furthering of knowledge to continue this work. From this larger point of view, scholarship for the sake of scholarship alone becomes of secondary importance and a Fellowship in the Guggenheim Foundation becomes a responsibility as well as an honor...