Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years at Monmouth, "Haldy" has been turning out chemists by the dozens. He is a slight man with wispy hair and a strong belief in precision. When he makes his way across the campus ("I must conserve my energies. We must all conserve our energies"), he never hurries his measured steps. "Life," he insists, "should be an orderly, calm, and at the same time, exciting routine...
...Richard Reusch is a short, slight (5 ft. 2 in., 110 Ib.) Lutheran missionary of 58 who chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days...
Egyptian art conventions did change over the centuries, though most of the modifications were so slight as to be almost imperceptible to the artists who made them. Slowly, Drioton says, "the sublime grandeur of the royal faces . . . gave way to a more human ideal of majesty mixed with a certain good-natured simplicity...
Another rule change may have a slight, adverse effect on scoring. Formerly, any time a ball carrier was downed in his own end zone, the other team was credited with a two-point safety. This rule neglected cases where a defending player received a punt or intercepted a pass near his own goal line, and then was carried by his own backward momentum into the end zone to fall or be tackled before he could change direction...
...months, stubborn old Jan Christian Smuts fought off death. Exhausted by pneumonia and heart strain, the 80-year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...