Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farther south the news was similar. In the Caucasus the Russians halted the Germans here & there, wiped out 8.000 Rumanians in one battle below Novorossiisk, but in the end had to report slight Nazi advances down the Black Sea coast and toward the Grozny oil fields...
Those who pass remain in college until graduation, then go to Ensign School for three months' training, and presumably succeed in being commissioned as the result of that training. Those who fail (and there seems slight chance to failure for a man who can do the Harvard preparatory work) are immediately sent on active duty, and after six months' sea duty may apply for Ensign training. Failures may avoid this sea duty, however, by enlisting in the Naval Air Force for active duty...
...Slight, grizzled Hugh Mulzac, ex-seaman, ex-mess boy, was catapulted front & center last week to become a Symbol of Negro participation in the war. When the Liberty freighter Booker T. Washington goes into service from California Shipbuilding's Los Angeles yard in mid-October, the Maritime Commission decided, she will be commanded by a British West Indies-born Brooklyn man, the first Negro to hold a U. S. master's certificate and the first to command a 10,500-ton ship. Captain Mulzac not only promised that he would be able to get qualified Negro officers...
...plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair-do which goes up and down like a broken window-shade. Errors, slight in themselves, have a cumulative effect which shatters the pleasant spell of such lines as "America--that's the country where everybody is responsible to everybody else for everything...
...Analysis of 300 recent crack-ups shows that the accident rate was one-third higher among pilots who had slight physical defects which were known but not considered serious enough to incapacitate them for flying...