Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road comes to a dead end at the Oklahoma state line. His car hurtled off the concrete into an Oklahoma wheat field. The only one of five riders to be hurt was the governor's wife Lorna, who had forgotten to fasten her safety belt, but escaped with slight cuts and bruises...
Massachusetts and Missouri are the two states most often taken to illustrate the old-line workings of American party politics. But Massachusetts probably has a slight edge in its perfection of the quest for the loaves and fishes, if only because here the art of politics has had so much more time to develop its distinctive style. With a settled regional economy, the avenues to succss here are limited and winning elections has become a financially and socially rewarding profession...
Died. Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, 67, slight, white-bearded yachtsman, water-colorist and world-renowned architectural historian, who taught for 38 years (1916-54) at Columbia University, wrote prolifically, edited (1952) the scholarly, encyclopedic Forms and Functions of Twen tieth-Century Architecture, capped his career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...
...bookmakers' line figures the Crimson an eleven and a half point favorite, and while this may be a slight exaggeration, the figure could easily be higher. Benham's uncertain physical shape and a rapidly improving Crimson line may very well halt the Lion attack. A weak Light Blue line in turn may allow the Crimson backfield to score as frequently as it did against cornell. The two factors the Crimson fear most are overconfidence and Benham; the first has been not much in evidence, the last will be all too apparent
...Joslin almost certainly will not start against Columbia, Coach Lloyd Jordan disclosed yesterday at football practice. Joslin, the team's leading ground gainer at Cornell, was injured early in that contest, but may play against the Lions if he is needed. Ron Eikenberry, his substitute, also has a slight injury, and Jim Damis worked out at the position yesterday...