Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slight reduction in the Dean's Office personnel was revealed by Dean Bender Saturday, when he announced that assistant dean Arthur R. Borden '39 is leaving the College and Borden's work will be absorbed by present assistant deans...
Edmund Morris Morgan. Morgan is stopping out of the Royall professorship of Law, the oldest law chair in the University. To students he was a short, slight, kindly man who underwent a schizophrenic change in the classroom which they claim he turned into "medieval horror chambers" by devilish cross examinations on court procedure...
Eleven-year-old Robert Bruce Lawrence of Oakland, Calif, had recovered from a skull fracture (the result of being knocked off his bike by a motorist). But soon he fell ill again. He ran a slight fever, and became noticeably bloated. His illness was diagnosed as kidney disease. For two months Bobby was in & out of Permanente Hospital...
...case of the kind we have had." Bobby seemed better at once. In a week he went home and was soon up & around. Following routine, his father was kept in the hospital to make sure that he had suffered no harm. At first, as is usual, he ran a slight fever, but he quickly recovered. Sidney Lawrence was about to be discharged when he developed severe liver and kidney trouble. Last week, 13 days after the transfusion, he died...
...Problem of Poverty. Captain Sam Grant discovers chubby, two-year-old Ulysses in Georgetown, Ohio, sitting with "chronic composure" when a pistol goes off in his hand. It follows the slight, taciturn young man through the training grounds of West Point and the Mexican War, leaves him a newly commissioned colonel of 39 in the ominous year 1861. Convinced that "biography is not instruction or teaching-but is just a story that happens to be true," Lewis has taken much of the stiffness and the stuffiness out of the Grant legend, and relegated the gossip about his minor vices...