Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent members of the joint legislative committee on Education yesterday saw slight chance of passage for the three bills introduced to bar Communist teachers from colleges in this state...
Hardly any New England resort reported less than "excellent" surface conditions as slight increases fell all over the area last night...
...testimony on the bills at a public session Wednesday, pointed out that similar measures had failed of passage in past years, and said he saw little difference between this year's versions and previous ones. "Personally, I think they're so much hogwash," he said, but still held out slight chance for passage, saying, "but we do some awfully stupid things in this legislature...
Mike Robertson, the leadoff man for the varsity, gained a slight lead, to which Jim Cairns added. Number three man, sophomore French Anderson, held the lead against Princeton's Gabe Markinsohn, and anchor man Wharton had little trouble nailing down the victory. The winning time, 3:22.2, compares favorably with the varsity's winning time in the K. of C. Meet earlier this month...
Into the arena strode John Foster Dulles. More than 200 reporters, waiting in the State Department auditorium, were the lions-at least they were ready to growl. Dulles eyed them with a slight smile. "I have a brief statement to make," he began, "about a matter which I judge to be of current interest." He noted that an article in LIFE, which had said that the U.S. policy of strength had deterred the Communists from full-scale war in Korea, Indo-China and the FormosL Strait "has attracted much comment." He then read a statement...