Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter Karen's wedding, Author Philip (Tomorrow!) Wylie suddenly decided that the story was all wet in portraying him as a "nervous" father of the bride. To the society editor of the Miami Herald Wylie batted out an explanatory note: "To be sure I was under a slight emotional strain as I came down the aisle with my daughter, owing to the fact that after a couple of false starts she went on with her customary apparent composure-but out of step ... I found myself reflecting on the many hundreds of hours of dancing lessons I had bought...
...weighing is done in a complicated apparatus whose essential part is a tiny glass tube closed at one end and trapping a bubble of air. When this "Cartesian diver" is properly weighted, it floats midway in a column of water, and slight changes in water pressure can make it sink or rise by compressing its bubble...
This week at K-25, as always since its beginning, the gaseous uranium flowed endlessly, with full crews at work and no fear of breakdown. In Washington the C.I.O.'s Swisher said, with a slight note of surprise: "I think he [Mitchell] understands and appreciates the problems of people who work for a living." Said Mitchell, who clerked in a store, worked in a factory, and went through Depression layoffs before he became a labor specialist: "It is much sounder that people voluntarily go back to work than if they are forced back by an injunction...
...muttered, "What's a slight delay? I plan for her to marry well...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Marghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...