Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Registration at the same time last year reached 7933. In spite of the increase of 200 men the gains in the various departments are very slight and notably there is a falling off in many. These may be made up when the final figures are obtainable and the total registration will probably show a greater margin of increase...
...Democratic candidate, but it is not campaign literature in the sense that the writings of Willebrandt or Heflin or the vaporings of Dr. Stratton are. Mr. Roosevelt says nothing, or hardly anything of the Republicans. In straightforward language, he merely recounts the record of Al Smith, with some slight interpretation...
...third of the Senators in the Danish Landsting (Senate) were elected last week for an eight-year term. The other two-thirds were elected four years ago for an eight-year term. Last week's voting resulted in slight gains for the Socialist-Pacifists (who demand abolition of the Danish army), and cut down from ten to four the majority in the Landsting now held by Liberal Prime Minister Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. The Folketing (Lower House) was elected two years ago for a four-year term...
...captain who was sailing back from Cowes to the U. S.; two days before the hurricane reached Porto Rico, he reported that he had encountered ari 80-mile gale, the worst in his experience. His radio message was brief: "Did not expect ship to live through. Everybody well. . . . Slight damage to starboard launch...
...daughter, Rosemary, old enough to go to parties. Last week, she announced that parties are a "bore," went to work in The Hub, which is the name of her father's men's-clothing store. "By spring," said she, "I hope to have attained some slight degree of success...