Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a slight intermission for lunch, the graduating class will march from the front of Eliot House to the Stadium for the afternoon exercises in which the Alumni annually welcome the Seniors to the ranks of graduates. The Harvard-Yale baseball game, an evening concert in the House Triangle to be arranged by Elliot Richardson, and the Class Day dance organization by Sheldon Dietz will conclude the day's activities...
...that there is no Ickes coat of arms. I regret of course the necessity of contradicting that statement, but find it necessary to do so in the face of conclusive evidence to the contrary, which has, perhaps, escaped the attention of the Secretary. I have written him about this slight error. For your information I enclose letter (copy) from the International Heraldic Institute, an absolutely reputable firm who conducted my genealogical research for me. This letter sets forth conclusively the ironclad evidence and authenticity of the family coat of arms...
This short, slight man with the slightly scraggly grey hair has more in common with the late Calvin Coolidge than the fact that he came to power by accident. He has a sardonic sense of humor, a deliberate manner and enormous practical shrewdness, which has earned him the nickname El Zorro (The Fox). He has no hobbies, takes no exercise; his family life consists of daily visits to his daughter Delia's house, where he plays with his grandchildren (see cut, p. 40). A hard, patient worker, in the ten months he has been Acting President he has worked...
...first half mile of Saturday's main event, the varsities of Harvard, Tech, and Princeton skimmed into a slight head wind prow for prow. Up until the Harvard Bridge Wagner was understroking the opposition and keeping up with them, but soon after Wag's boat got swinging at the payoff number, and the race was all over. With half a mile to go the Varsity shot the beat up to 34 for practice and went over the line at 37 in 9:22.8. Princeton was timed exactly five seconds later, and Tech finished eleven seconds behind the Tigers...
...letter to the Crimson of April 26, Professor Dodd described the choice before us in a way that most of us, I think, accepted uncritically before the November election: either a slight risk, in this case convoys, to assure British victory, or the prospects of America's "having to fight unaided and at the greatest possible disadvantage...