Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anglo-French relations last week received a slight jog-just big enough to remind everybody that jogable relations exist...
Looks. Is the complexion of the motor highway to change radically or only in slight degree? That is the question which is everywhere asked when Henry Ford announces a new line of cars. Never since familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring...
...Future. Few or none of the broken levees have been repaired, leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November...
...statement that the Admiralty's demands were "absolute"?that is to say not "relative" to U. S. naval strength?Mr. Gibson suddenly proposed last week an arrangement under which the British demands for 7,500-ton cruisers would be largely met, but the U. S. would have a slight supremacy in 10,000-ton cruisers...
...back as 1920 General Wood walked with a slight limp, the result of a paralysis in his left side...