Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glass Motel de Ville, which has a pool, a cocktail lounge, restaurant and 24-hour room service, is only 15 blocks from the central shopping district, and manages to rack up a 100% occupancy rate. Those who stay outside town struggle for a choice highway intersection, or even a slight rise of ground so that motorists can see them from afar. Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door...
Although its library and its cosmopolitan tradition helped bring Bologna Europe's first U.S. graduate school, the project's prime mover has been its director, slight, affable C. (for Charles) Grove Haines, 48, onetime professor of diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. While serving as a temporary State Department attaché in postwar Italy, Historian Haines had an idea: the young experts the U.S. and its allies need to conduct European affairs could best be trained on location. After winning over his Johns Hopkins superiors, Haines went back to Bologna with...
...Dunster quintet took a lead in the first minute of the game which it maintained for over ten minutes. The Deacons then built up their score to gain a slight and temporary edge over their opponents, but the two teams were tied at the half...
Over 200 years ago, Cambridge and Oxford originated the distinctions between major and minor sports. The two universities awarded "blues" in nine sports and "half blues" in seventeen others. This distinction, with slight variations, carried over to America during the early decade of the 20th century. In the then theoretical Ivy League, major and minor sports were clearly distinguished by the size and color of letter award...
...that TIME saw fit to quote from General MacArthur's address was his (presumably the general's) words on youth and age. It so happens that all these words were quotes, or rather slight misquotes, of a piece written by my grandfather, the late Samuel Ullman of Birmingham, Ala. (a public school there bears his name) . . . Twenty years after my grandfather's death, a journalist interviewing MacArthur at his Tokyo head quarters in late 1945 was struck by a framed poem over his desk. It was called Youth, and was apparently anonymous. The general said this poem...