Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is something on the track. There is something standing in the way of a clear-cut statement. ... I will leave it to your imagination, but let me say this, putting it in as mild a way as I can, the Administration in Washington must, to some slight degree, have been in sympathy with the propaganda that was put out through this country by the joint committee [Power Lobby] of the National Electric Light Association...
...Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...Venizelos has completely recovered from his slight attack of dengue fever which recently epidemicked in Greece (TIME, Sept...
...seeing his professors dragged before an unofficial tribunal of upperclass scribes. Trying and sentencing of a similar nature is the regular stock in trade of all undergraduate editors and essayists. If the student who reads today's Guide be of a somewhat thoughtful nature he may even feel a slight resentment that criticism, often hasty or unnecessarily destructive, should be allowed to run rampant with the life work of a group of men as able and experienced as the Harvard faculty...
...follow down you find a starched blue collar on shirt to match. Tie of sombre hue, is neatly in place with an exceedingly small knot over the pin. Vest is in prominent display, and thin gold chain stretches from upper pocket to upper pocket with a slight dip. Breast pocket display cousists of corner of handkerchief with tiny monogram. Perfect crease leads the eye down to slightly wide cuffs breaking on over polished shoes. If it were but slightly colder, an immaculate Chesterfield would add the final touch...