Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until he flunks out of it. To effect this, the Committee proposes a "suitable test" at the end of the sophomore year, to be taken by all sophomores and to be based substantially on the work accomplished in sophomore tutorial. The test might be a conventional essay, or a "slight essay," a paper written in a halfday on a small group of topics...
...flaws; undoubtedly, it has its bitter antagonists. Yet it is not, as one committee member condescendingly put it, "almost a thing of the past." It will be unfortunate if a group designed to facilitate the necessary drama co-ordination will, by its bias, ignore the Opera Guild, and slight its proposal...
...broken sprinkler system caused a slight amount of damage and a considerable amount of excitement in the Coop yesterday morning...
...Some time ago," he said, "I had the strangest premonition, the strangest urges, and even against my will I was compelled to change my name ... I had a slight accident. I had concussion. And my body was actually taken over by the spirit of an Easterner...
...About East Cupcake?" The weather clouded, and travelers brought tales that Jack Paar's Tonight show, on location at a Miami Beach hotel, was laying eggs in a heavy downpour. Little crises piled up. Slight (130 Ibs.) Actor Don Knotts, who plays the nervous type in Allen's "Man in the Street" feature, passed out in the coffee shop; flown down from the U.S., his doctor diagnosed "nervous exhaustion." Bearded Orchestra Leader Skitch Henderson created consternation at Havana's CMQ when he turned up in sweater and denims resembling a Cuban revolutionary's getup...