Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the great San Francisco earthquake and fire took place on April 18, 1906, the Japanese Red Cross sent $100,000 for relief. The loss of life at San Francisco was only about 500, and the earthquake was slight as compared with that in Japan. The chief damage was caused by the fire which followed. For several days great numbers of people had no shelter; cooking was done in the streets to avert fire danger, since the water supply had been cut off. A few looters, rifling wrecked houses and dead bodies were shot; food, and even more, water...
Advocacy of American participation in the World Court was entrusted to George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft. Despite some slight objection on the ground that it was a political question, Mr. Wickersham succeeded in carrying a motion endorsing the World Court. The motion implied that most Americans favored it. Lord Birkenhead made no reference to politics, except to intimate that in England the prestige of royalty was increasing and that of the Socialist party was diminishing...
...when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned to the stage. A slight, amusing comedy...
...North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ? were affected by the 6.6¢ cut made by the Standard of Indiana. In addition, the Standard of Kentucky made a cut of 1¢ in Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. The Standard of Nebraska cut its retail prices to 16¼¢. Slight cuts followed in the Eastern states. W. C. Teagle (President of the Standard of New Jersey) declared that, unless crude oil prices continued to fall, further cuts in retail gasoline prices were unlikely...
...ptomaine poisoning, which had compelled him suddenly to abandon his tour, was followed by a slight attack of pneumonia. For a day or two it did not seem as if he were throwing off the poison. Then gradual improvement followed. His temperature abated, his pulse approached normal. The bulletins of physicians in attendance had at first pronounced his condition " serious." Succeeding bulletins gave more and more encouragement to the hope that he would recover. Public apprehension was allayed...