Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slight, smiling Mrs. General Carpenter is one of the Army's writers, directs much of its relief work in England. Throughout their lives the Carpenters have lived within the Army's rigid pattern, which forbids smoking, use of alcohol, going to the theater. The General has not read a novel for 20 years. A typical Salvationist couple, the Carpenters have two children, both in the Salvation Army...
Every man on the squad is in good condition except Jack Comeford, currently ailing with a slight illness, but the Freshman passer will definitely be ready for the long train ride Thursday...
...talking with second son Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, now assigned to London. Next day the passport room at the American Embassy was cleared of desks and filing cases for a press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt called the conference to order like a ladies' club meeting, apologized for her slight deafness, charmed the 100 reporters with quick, unhesitating answers. Question : "What do you think of Anglo-American relations after the war?" Answer: "People in England know very little about the U.S.-our history for them stops at the Revolution. There is a mutual lack of knowledge, but I do not think...
...hospital is being built on a slight rise overlooking a fertile valley. A temporary storehouse holds thousands of pounds' worth of medicines and the latest most elaborate scientific equipment the world can offer. The hospital is being rushed up first to 1000-bed capacity, then to double that number. Eventually it will cover 40 acres of land...
...that House. F. Barton Harvey '43, undergraduate president of the Varsity Club, Donald Forte '43, vice-president, and J. Donald MacKinnon '43, treasurer, have been working on an alternative plan which would enable the Varsity Club to stay open, but at present the chances seem slight that such a plan would meet the crisis in expenses and help...