Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dwight P. Griswold, aid-to-Greece chief, and wife Erma each had a collection of slight cuts & bruises after a truck hit their auto in Athens...
...next day, they went on to place second to M.I.T. in a hexagonal meet for the Greater Boston Dinghy Trophy. These races were followed by a slight lull in winning activity, the sailors dropping to a fourth place out of eight in the Sharpe trophy competition at Providence. M.I.T. again plowed home with a first, followed by Brown and Yale...
More In, More Out. U.S. imports increased $84,200,000 in March to reach an alltime peak of $666,200,000, said the Bureau of the Census (most spectacular gains were in raw wool and newsprint). Exports also showed a slight increase (up $54,700,000 to $1,141,000,000), but they were still 11% under last year...
Some students will feel that science courses taken now will make their medical training easier or more thorough. To a slight degree, it will make later courses easier, but certainly anyone with intellectual curiosity has no desire to repeat courses merely because they are offered in separate schools. Time is too short to allow duplication of the program. Insofar as thoroughness of education goes, rest assured that the medical schools anticipate no preliminary training beyond the stated requirements, and therefore discuss all relevant material in far greater detail than that taught in College...
...Ankles. Lou Boudreau (rhymes with mud row) himself was the red-hottest Indian of them all. Despite a slight banquet-season paunch, Lou was batting a phenomenal .519 from his unorthodox crouch and was leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished...