Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion. . . ." John Lewis cleared his throat with a significantly explosive harrumph. "In my opinion absenteeism is a question that runs through the human equation. . . . I have been told that absenteeism is higher in Congress than it is in industry." He leaned a little forward and added, with a slight, royal gesture of his labor boss's sceptre, a cigar: "I notice that absenteeism prevails on this committee this morning...
...slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, traveling at three miles an hour and closely followed by British infantry, ripped through the Germans' intricate barbed-wire defenses, slithered across their wide trenches. The surprised Germans bolted before the tanks' machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made...
Since the formation of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, significant gains have been made. Numerically, these gains have been slight, but occupational patterns are being established to form a basis for tapping the large reserve of Negro labor in a score of industrial areas. With the slow realization that the home front is as important as the fighting front, employers--with a little prodding by Government agencies--are opening fields hitherto closed to the Negro. Shipbuilding, the converted automobile industry, the iron and steel plants are leaving their doors ajar, and a few Negroes are slipping...
...Driving in from his great Matinicock estate at Glen Cove, Long Island, he came into the bank as usual at about 10:30 a.m. That evening he was on a Florida special, southbound for a rest. Early on the morning of the 25th he suffered a slight heart attack, walked from the train to a cottage of the Gasparilla Inn at Bocagrande, a tiny hamlet on a Florida...
Last Sunday's jam session at Symphony Hall was a distinct success. The music was above the average for the most part, way above the previous session at the Bradford. The acoustics were superb, except for a slight echo which one soon got accustomed...