Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for the presence of the New Mexicans was somewhat different. Bronson Cutting's caste marks-a broad Harvard A (he spoke with a slight lisp), clothes cut on English models, interest in such unprofitable subjects as modern music-did not make him one of them. In 1910 he left Harvard where he had been a favorite pupil of Philosopher George Santayana, who called him "Young Aristotle." He went to New Mexico to die of tuberculosis. Instead of dying he recovered and roamed over the State studying its archeology, making friends with its Spanish-speaking citizens. He already spoke...
...trouble began last Saturday when Green stumbled over a stick in the 200 meter event, netting himself a fifth place and several severe cinder burns on his hands and legs. A slight infection set in which became both painful and dangerous, and yesterday it was considered advisable to send him to Stillman...
With the thorough and painstaking development of scientific discovery, few basic inventions are now made, although a patent covering a slight improvement may often be of equal commercial importance...
...elementary courses in several departments should have drawn such fire is ample proof that drastic changes in their conduct is the crying need of present-day Harvard. An elementary course is ostensibly an introduction to a field of knowledge in which a man may or may not have had slight preparation. In the event he has not, his entire attitude towards that field, indeed, the extent to which it may serve to broaden his horizon, may depend on one man: the lecturer in the elementary course...
...Benefiting from the slight pick-up in building, Johns-Manville Corp. operated in the black for the first March quarter since 1931. Profits were $246,000 as against a loss of $76,000 in the same three months of 1934 and a loss of $953,000 in the March quarter...