Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will always be a group of people who are vested with some slight bit of authority who are afraid of the truth, who are afraid of criticism. The threat to your Radcliffe reporter is nothing new. Nor is your striking back with you best weapon of publicity anything new. But what all this does show is that no newspaper, run on the principles taught by democracy, can be anything if it is not allowed to get at the truth and print...
Whatever Stam's exact words were, they gave the committee pause. Sentiment grew for a compromise bill that would combine a mild excess-profits tax with a slight boost in the regular rates on corporation income...
...Radio Network" moved into the now defunct Shepard Hall, which then stood near the Indoor Athletic Building. At this time it was broadcasting through the steam pipes, and listeners had to tap their radios to a radiator. Illegal outside radiation through the air--the Network was non-commercial--seemed slight...
Although he is no gambling man, the Rev. Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into...
Henry M. Silveira '51, president of the present Student Council agrees with the 1947 minority. "If the council is entirely elective," he insists, "we don't get all the best people." The new constitution, which obligates the group to appoint from four to six members, reflects a slight swing away from the predominant 1947 point of view. It enables the council to add to its ranks men who will be free from politics and who, though worthy, may have failed to win in elections...