Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohen will have his second chance in three weeks to catch the mercurial Harrison Dillard in the 45-yard high hurdles. Although he has been hampered by a slight log injury and a cold, Cohen might pull an upset, as he has been running better than at any other time during the season. Ed Carter will also enter...
Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, was the only faculty member interviewed who saw a slight business decline as a definite possibility. "It's going to be hard to maintain the present rate of consumer credit upon which so much of our prosperity is based," he said. "The falling off in automobile and housing sales is a first indication of this...
...situation was a far cry from the day only three years ago, when James B. Carey, the slight but tough president of the 362,000-member International Union of Electrical Workers, stood proudly beside Westinghouse's President Gwilym A. Price at his union's convention and proclaimed : "We've found a way to sit down, discuss, argue, and then resolve differences in the truly American spirit of give and take." Now, Carey accuses Price and his company of "moral irresponsibility, economic depravity, scab-herding, contract-breaking"; in return. Price accuses Carey and his union of "gangsterism, deliberate...
...week's end, there was slight sign of letup. The union and the company sent one man each to a secret meeting in Philadelphia with Federal Mediator John Murray. The meeting, however, was called less to bargain collectively than to set up rules for further meetings. Said Mediator Murray: "The strike couldn't be settled in anything less than two weeks." While they waited, men in the picket lines heaped up more stones, stirred their chilled feet, and chanted in derisive mockery of Westinghouse's advertising slogan, "You can't be sure...
...tuition rise next year will not seriously cut the number of Harvard Club scholarships, although it may bring a slight decrease in the number of regular applicants, especially in the West, Club officials stated yesterday...