Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning this week (351 years ago), a slight old man with skin like alabaster and a beard like carded wool sat on his bed, raised his blue eyes to heaven and died. Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice. Yet Philip Neri was neither a mighty prince of the church nor a hair-shirt hermit of the desert. He was a saint...
...business affairs of the exchange would be administered by students receiving pay for their work. They would be responsible for coordinating the activities of the various House organizations on a college wide basis, and could use the exchange's slight profits to buy new furnishing in wholesale quantities and to repair worn pieces of furniture. This exchange would prevent the men who sell their furniture at term's end from taking an unnecessary loss, and assure an ample supply of decently priced furniture for the beginning of the next school year...
...spring practice session revealed little that made Coach Dick Harlow stand up and take notice. A slight touch of brilliance where it wasn't expected was shown, however, by Gibby Warren and Dave Farrell, both of whom were performing in the backfield...
...with a head full of Varga girls might not have much time for reading contracts. Peru-born Alberto Vargas, slight, black-mustached creator of Esquire's pin-up girls, claims that he signed his without reading it. He further claims that his trusted employer said, "This is one contract you can sign with your eyes closed...
...Steel Corp.'s wholly owned Western subsidiary, Columbia Steel. U.S. Steel offered $47 million for Geneva, including inventory, said it would spend another $43,500,000 to give Geneva facilities for peacetime steel products, put Geneva in the front rank of steel producers. But U.S. Steel added a slight "if" to its bid: there would have to be reductions in Western rail rates on steel. Said Big Steel: "Any bidder on Geneva Steel sees a need for reduction in freight rates from Geneva to the Coast. The economic future of the plant rests on these reductions...