Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway in World War II a slight, intense Chinese woman delivered to the U.S. Congress a memorable plea that turned out years later to have been a fateful warning. She was Shanghai-born, Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that...
Indiana University's slight, white-haired Kenneth Powers Williams, 70, who began teaching mathematics at Indiana in 1909, since 1944 has found a second field of excellence-writing Civil War history. That year he decided to follow an old interest, write a short book on the war's last year. Commencing work at 6 a.m., teaching classes in an authoritative, no-nonsense fashion in the afternoon and writing more history at night, Mathematician-Historian Williams began to produce something far different-an orderly, exhaustive study of Northern command: Lincoln Finds a General. With two volumes out, the work...
Bagged Martinis. Plastic bags for individual martinis have been developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for several airlines. They figure to save up to 60 Ibs. of bottle weight per flight. Three Ms is now working on putting bourbon in its plastic Scotchpak, which left a slight taste in first experiments...
...last week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...
...three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...