Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League was suggested by undergraduates in seven colleges, hopeful that some common ground, no matter how slight, could be found for "the salvation of athletic idealism from the serious threats that menace it today". Seven representatives of the most renowned educational institutions in the East should have been able to reach a basis for mutual agreement on this subject. But they merely returned with more of the same hypocritical assertions of "belief" that have served to veil but not conceal the real issue in the last three years...
...coolly announced: "The prevalence of influenza at present is very similar to that frequently experienced at this season of the year." Indianapolis factories and offices were crippled by workers' absences, but it was not felt that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully echoed Seattle, "but a great many common colds." Denver, without announcing the number of influenza cases, told school children that they would have...
These rules are to be enforced by the House masters with no reference to University Hall except in extreme violations. It is expected that slight digressions in the rules will result in the taking away of the privilege of having women guests, and more serious violations may result in the deprivation of other House privileges such as the use of the dining halls...
...Secretary of State's entourage, as the Conference drew to a close, defended him from the local U. S. businessmen by putting him to bed "with a slight cold." They warmly said that for a man of his years he had done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold...
...suns, no conceivable agency or material could actually cause light to travel in a curve. The reason that du Font's plastic appears to do so is that the crystalline structure of the material refracts the light in a series of very short straight lines joined at slight angles, like bar links in a watch chain, so that the light stays inside the conductor until it reaches...