Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right, and combat crews were immediately instructed to use their extinguishers at the first slight hint of fire, or not at all. Later, aluminum alloys were substituted for the magnesium-alloy parts...
...When slight, precocious, 16-year-old Freshman "Murray" Butler got his first glimpse of Columbia in 1878, it was a college with 227 students and a little cluster of buildings on one city block. Last week, when 83-year-old Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler handed in his resignation as president of Columbia, the university could boast 30,000 resident students, assets worth $231,561,407, a reputation as one of the biggest and finest universities in the world...
...Santayana's students. He went into business in Chicago to make money quickly, made it, retired, went to China, hired a junk and sailed leisurely up & down the great rivers. Eventually he settled in the British West Indies as a fruit grower, and married a slight, wise, well-read Negro girl...
...other Northwest citizens talked of Art Ritchie's new project with wry humor. West coast hotheads have been hating the Japanese free ever since Pearl Harbor. To the confirmed haters, the news that henceforth there will be a slight fee just seemed to make it official...
...stepped a third leftist: slight, parchment-faced Sydney R. Elliott, 43, who made his mark on the consumer-cooperative Reynolds News, though the Beaver hates the cooperative movement. Elliott lasted as long as Beaverbrook was pouring his immense vitality into the war effort. Through most of the war Churchill has leaned heavily on Beaverbrook. But last month the Beaver decided that the foreign war was going well enough for his Express to pay more attention to the domestic wars, and opened his recruiting campaign for the Conservative Party with a frontpage editorial: "The Daily Express . . . refuses to conform...