Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McNair asserted that only war or similar emergencies demand more governmental controls than now exist. he excluded taxes and the slight reins on consumer credit from the category of controls...
Informal scrimmages, staged in the last few days, showed that talent is pretty well split. Eliot, with an established coaching system, seems to hold a slight advantage in its race to win the cup for the second year. Coach Charley Mains' B.U. plays will be in the able hands of Dave McGiffert...
...Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home. She was to keep her three notes and 5 guineas a secret...
...when football coaches like Frank Leahy and Fritz Crisler have teams like their 1947 Notre Dame and Michigan machines, will they never come out and say, "I'm going to win this game."? Because morale, that intangible something which even the best coach has only slight control over, figures in the final score of virtually every game...
...associates made a gadget like a child's swing, put an egg in it, and swung it against a steel plate. When the egg was free to move (like a passenger with no safety belt) a very slight shock broke the shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled...