Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sighed Ellen Stevenson: "I had to incorporate. Then I had to do all these other things. I just want to get that liquor license in my pocket and then I'll talk. It's completely routine. They always turn down the first application. There was a slight misunderstanding...
...brief two-and-a-half-hour ceremony following a slight tiff over the direction the bird should face, CRIMSON editors and Lampoon members resolved that the Ibis should face toward 14 Plympton St., rather than toward...
With John Nichols and Larry MacQuade on the tentative injured list, the varsity goes into this afternoon's match as a slight underdog. The Bermudians tied Yale, while the varsity lost, 3 to 0. Both teams fell to Princeton...
...commonest element in the universe is hydrogen, which exists both in the stars and among them. When it is diffuse, it sends out radio waves 21 centimeters long that permit radio astronomers to spot clouds of hydrogen drifting among the stars. Their speed can be measured by a slight shortening (for approach) or lengthening (for recession) in the length of the radio waves that come from them...
Yaleman Adams. 56. onetime vice president of U.S. Steel, took over as president of Pittsburgh Steel four years ago, when the steel industry was just coming out of a slight slump. Pittsburgh's earnings had been spotty. When demand was high, Pittsburgh could sell all the semifinished steel (mostly ingots) it produced; other companies needed it for fabricating. But when the industry was running at 70% of capacity, Pittsburgh dropped to about 50%, near the break-even point; other steelmakers had enough of their own steel for fabricating needs. Adams' solution was to "get into the finishing business...