Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...describeed, Labor upon the demand of Mr. Macdonald must be allowed to go before the country for vindication or defeat. In view of the astonishing increase in the number of Labor members sent up by the last election, this second election, sure to be demanded, might conceivably produce a slight Labor majority over both of the other two still widely divergent parties...
...smoke, and although these figures may not be absolutely correct, they are at least comparatively accurate. 32.5 per cent of this year's Freshmen class are smokers while the percentage in 1921 was 48 per cent and in 1922 was 37 per cent. There is probably some slight tendency to a decrease in smoking due to an increased participation in athletic exercises. In one of the graduate schools, 53 percent of the men smoke as compared with 54 percent in 1921 and 65 percent in 1922. At a rough estimate slightly over half of the college students are tobacco users...
...highest death-rates for states were in Maine and Vermont, which each had 14.7 per 1,000. The lowest were in Idaho and Montana, with 8.1 and 8.6 respectively. Five states showed slight decreases-Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia...
Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis deaths declined from 99.8 per 100,000 population for 1921 to 97.4 for 1922. In the five years 1918-1922, the rate was cut from 150 to 97.4. The total number of tuberculosis deaths in the registration area was 90,452. Twelve states showed slight increases, but these were more than balanced by the reductions in 22 states. The highest rate was in Colorado, 183.3 per 100,000, but this is due in large part to the many deaths of tuberculosis patients attracted there for the climate. The lowest rate was in Nebraska, with...
...earliest childhood. Nor will I ever forget the surveys and power of the first chapter of The Great Hunger. It had the breadth of sky and the mystery of rock and sea. To meet the author of such a book is necessarily a little disappointing. Bojer is slow, slight, would be almost dapper, were it not for keenness of eye, vigor of movement and ruggedness of countenance. He speaks English with difficulty. His lecturing in the U. S. was largely to Scandinavian organizations. The day I heard him he paid a glaring, a vociferous tribute to Frank Norris.* Bojer...