Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision was made last Friday by Ruth K. Porritt, head Radcliffe librarian, when slight confusion ensued after sixty students had reserved twenty boks for the same night...
...Rose Period. Even here, however, the master's touch, a knowledgeable intuition, comes through despite whatever faults exist. Less can be said of the bronze, automobile-headed Baboon with Young, a cheap tour de force despite whatever claims to social satire it may make. There is some slight consolation in this tangible assurance that even the great must...
Astronomers at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Abservatory are not trying to "think up novel forces" to explain slight deviations in the orbital behavior of the Russian third stage rocket. These deviations have not been explainable thus far in terms of known forces acting on the object...
Camillien Houde's Montreal (pop. 1,595,000) has changed, and no one has done more to change it than slight, studious-looking Mayor Drapeau. A political unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars ran up a $100-million-a-year business and bawdyhouses never closed. He proved police collusion with such evidence as a row of doors nailed to a wall so that cops could "padlock" vice dens without offending the underworld; 20 cops were later fined or fired. Only four weeks after...
...this is quite a trick, but Dr. Gordon accomplished it while working at the University of California in Berkeley. The two kinds of rabbit sperm cells look exactly alike, but there is nevertheless a slight difference between them. Dr. Gordon believes that the protein that coats them may not be identical. At any rate, the X and Y sperms behave differently when a gentle electric current is passed through a solution in which they are suspended. Under favorable circumstances, the X (female) sperms move toward the positive anode, and the Y (male) sperms move toward the negative cathode...