Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newcomer to Hollywood, slight, humorous, 49-year-old Ivor Richards has amply pretested Basic English in textbook and lecture. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he traveled eight years as a Basic missionary in Europe and China, in 1939 became director of the Harvard Commission on English Language Studies under a Rockefeller grant. His textbook for Massachusetts adult aliens (soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin) made a big hit in Latin America. One of his two Basic helpers in China was killed in a bombing raid; the other, in Kunming, has reported a lively business in the first book...
...neither Henderson nor Franklin D. Roosevelt has faced the second answer. Fact is the war has given some groups far more buying power than they ever had before; other groups have had to cut way down. On balance there is a slight retrenchment; but no tax and savings plans are yet designed to make the new-rich stand their share of the needed extra...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...great inconvenience to either the student contributor or to the Lehman Hall bookkeeping departments if a fixed yearly sum could be deducted from individual bank accounts by way of the term bill. Perhaps men in College should willingly accept their responsibility for institutions they have backed, but a slight expansion of effort on the part of the University would be a permanent relief to the Council, and would help the undergraduate acquit this responsibility more painlessly...
...what his Government-in-exile would do. But it was plain that he considered himself only a temporary visitor. Though his health is frail he knew that, like his friend General MacArthur, he will some day return to his people who are hiding in the hills, to the little, slight-boned, brave men who are standing up, silent, patient, enduring, against...