Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages of print, as appearing in The Atlantic Monthly, recently caused that magazine to be noticed by editors and politicians whose acquaintance with the Atlantic is ordinarily slight. The two pages were headed, "The Road Away from Revolution, by Woodrow Wilson." The article was a general essay, but it showed that the former President has not lost his interest in world events. It bore the mark of the Wilson style, the Wilson vocabulary, the Wilson mode of thinking, with which everyone was familiar four years...
...practical effect is to give the Japanese a slight diplomatic advantage in negotiations with the Chinese Government, as the act is in the nature of withholding recognition...
...house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
Conditions were ideal when the two shells lined up at the railroad bridge at 7.15 o'clock after being brought down stream lvy the launches. A slight following tide was behind the crews while the lack of wind obviated any trouble in this direction. Starting out on practically even terms the rival eights reached the mid-way mark with little to choose between them. At this point the Freshman and Combination crews took up the challenge and all four went on up the course together...
...inner regions of the heart will no longer be sacred, for medical science has invented a "cardioscope" enabling physicians to see inside the beating heart. To Dr. Duff S. Allen, a young surgical assistant at Washington University, belongs the honor of having perfected the instrument. By making a slight incision directly over the heart, and gazing through what appears to be a combination of flashlight and microscope, he can distinctly see the working of the heart valves...