Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 15 carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely...
...meeting of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, the nation's top industrialists worried that tight money might force cutbacks in industry's expansion plans. Said Scripto's President James V. Carmichael: ("There's no question the tightening of credit has put a slight damper on our long-range planning." Department Store (Daniels & Fisher) President Joe Ross worried that the money shortage might cut back on Denver's "tremendous growth." Complained Ross: "The cost of expansion is prohibitive because of the money rates." But few businessmen had been forced to alter building...
...into the column: "First thing this morning, the John in the kids' bathroom got stopped up. Everybody had to use Mommy's and Daddy's. This is like rerouting rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids to bed fifteen minutes late...
Stephen Desmonde, son of a well-off Anglican clergyman, has all the cherished stigmata of the True Artist-a "slight figure and sensitive face, dark eyes and delicate pallor," and at every crisis he coughs blood. His father is appalled when Stephen insists he Wants To Paint. "To throw away your brilliant prospects, wreck your whole career, for a mere whim," he wails. Stephen is adamant: "The only thing that mattered was this creative instinct that burned within him." He Renounces All, including the love of the neighboring squire's daughter, a girl with an "air of quiet composure...
After noting the historical fact that Kelly had caused a slight furor on his last appearance here in 1952, Capp settled down to the business at hand. "We all know what we're here for," he said. "We're here to raise money to louse up those happy natives in Delhi...