Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby bonus for graduate students would, of course, require a slight expansion of Harvard's budget. It might also result in continuous disruption of academic endeavor. But it would tend to increase the educated classes. And it is, at least, more realistic than Dean Elder's present program...
This was our first really close look at the dancers. Only one of the men looked frail and particularly feminine, the others were slight but athletic. Their faces were chiselled. I thought of the sketch of Kirkegaard by Manet with its Nordic impishness. The women were lovely, budding, blossoming and fading with each costume change. Against the gossamer of the skirts were beautifully developed supple legs...
Saund. who holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, believes that "on just a matter of mathematics.'' i.e., a slight edge in Democratic registration, he will win-"I can feel this one coming." But local pundits doubt it. Reason: they never underestimate the power of Jackie Cochran...
When asked about his team's chances this afternoon, Tufts' President Nils Y. Wessell said emphatically, "We'll win!" Nobody has thought of asking President Pusey that same question, for at sophisticated Harvard this week, interest in today's game has been so slight that any visible concern has missed the eye of most observers...
...Sons Take Over. Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious...