Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer throttled his little wife viciously; she pinned his ears to the floor. He came back kicking and swinging; she treated him to a shoulder shrug, a slight wrist twist and a hip flip. Westgate sailed through the air. "Ooooo," said the audience. Detroit's toughest cop was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and twisted tendons. Said his remorseful wife: "I never wanted to learn those tricks. . . . I feel trembly and just awful. . . . I've never hurt him before. It was lack of wall space. I had no perspective in that big hall...
...combat on a sandy beach." Results: both Garands failed to operate as semi-automatic rifles (i.e., reload automatically after each round). One failed completely and the firer had to hammer the bolt with a mallet; "the other operated by hand with extreme difficulty." The Springfields continued to work, with slight difficulty. On these salt water tests, the Garand was rated last, the Springfield first. (See pictures of how bullets are made...
...Natural Sciences, slight drops in Chemistry, Biology, and Bio-chemical Sciences were offset by an increase of almost 100 per cent in Engineering Sciences, which has 58 concentrators compared with 32 last year...
...arguments against the system carry much weight. Whether the students would be willing to serve themselves for only a slight saving per week lies in the realms of speculation. Such a plan would destroy much of the social aspect of the House life. Of invaluable aid in solving the problem would be a poll of student opinion. The proposal should not be adopted unless there is overwhelming desire for it and unless no other more effective method of economizing can be discovered...
Your editorial of March 11. "Liberal Liturgy", described very accurately the new "just order of society" proclaimed by the Malvern Conference of the Church of England. But in your concluding paragraph you made a slight theological error in saying that: "For a century now there has been an attempt to bring these same practical reforms into being through the medium of force rather than religion. Perhaps it will turn out eventually that the Church is a better catalyst of progress than the Communist revolution." May it not be indeed that the Church of England is identifying itself with the Communist...