Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enemies and Patristic Homilies on the Gospels have one thing in common: they are published by Henry Regnery Co.. a young Chicago publishing house that operates in the old tradition of the personal publisher. Regnery's personal publisher is its 43-year-old president, Henry Regnery, a slight, intense man, whose interests and whims in religion, philosophy, education, poetry and politics have produced a varied, provocative, often infuriating and rarely dull catalogue of Regnery books...
...latest Air Force which in the past has made the unit here both unpopular and unpopulated. In the spring of 1954, the service informed the Harvard AFROTC that all seniors who would not fly, could not be commissioned. Students in the administrative program, despite heated protests to Washington, received slight compensation: opportunities to serve in the Air National Guard. This move, unjust as it was, caused a rapid drop in the enrollment of the College's unit until, by this fall, AFROTC was the smallest of the three services here...
Judges James L. Gibbs, Social Relations tutor, and Albert V. Tucker, Teaching Fellow in History, awarded the decision to the Dudley team of John Murphy, Anthony Giordano, and Larry Tafe (Rebuttalist) chiefly because of their slight edge in presentation. Charles Nicholas, Robert Lifson, and Bryan Wilhelm (Rebuttalist) spoke for Kirkland. Wilhelm was praised by the judges for his outstanding rebuttal...
...potential hazard, however slight, to the vaccinated person...
Aside from a slight over-accent on the burlesque, The Matchmaker is a thoroughly enjoyable play. In addition, it furnishes the much-needed proof that a successful comedy need not revolve around an army tent or a bedroom...