Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the yardstick of "constructive service" to the defense effort. Other Administration officials undoubtedly have their own interpretations of what should or should not be released to the press and public. Only one clear fact emerges--the Administration has substituted the chaos of bureaucratic discretion for the rationality, however slight, which the classification system formerly afforded...
...national effort." Despite their confident tone, and a widespread prognosis that they would increase their overall majority in the House of Commons, from their present 19 to perhaps 100 seats, the Tories are by no means a shoo-in. As ex-Prime Minister Churchill hurried back (troubled with a slight cold) from a rainy Sicilian vacation to stand at his successor's side, the News Chronicle's Gallup poll showed a 3½% decline in Tory strength, and the Tories now leading Labor by a mere...
...destroy it so thoroughly that it cannot stimulate the production of antibodies. This means a narrow margin of safety. Last year's Salk vaccine, made in small pilot plants under laboratory conditions, apparently succeeded in staying within this margin. But it may develop that the margin is too slight for large-scale commercial production. If so, the Salk vaccine may have to be modified by using different strains of virus, or different ways of killing them. Both can be done...
After chief funnyman Peter H.C.J. Williams '56 found at the last minute he could not squeeze into a shell, the other seven humor men came in for a slight dunking. The Ibis shell sank after crashing into the center support on the Cottage Farm Bridge...
...mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds...