Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Motors contributed to a slight extent in stabilizing the credit of these banks. The corporation, with $190,000,000 in cash and securities on hand, has sent funds to Georgia under its policy of deploying fluid assets...
...Waltz Dream. Another German film of rare and easy excellence has been made from Oscar Straus' operetta. Simplicity and graceful common sense have replaced the million dollar dowdiness that would have suffused the film if made in almost any U. S. studio. The story is slight, telling of a frosty Princess and her not particularly interested Prince consort. The latter prefers a blonde from a beer garden. None of the actors are notable here. All of them in their strange Teutonic way are excellent...
...Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving very slowly, pushed back the dress that covered the breast of her youngest. The gash left by the woodpile ax was deep...
...would send both of us to jail. I don't want you to go to jail, sweetheart, and would die by inches if I had to go. . . . The girl went out and left the letter there. In a little while a man came in. Idi was short and slight and he stood quite still for a moment, breathing softly in the dim room. When he found that the room was really empty, he looked around with a quick, frightened turn of his head, as if to make sure that he hadn't got into the wrong flat...
After the War he joined Henry Farquharson Kerr's Kerr Steamship Co. as vice president, became president of the Roosevelt Steamship Co. (The two concerns have the same offices at 44 Beaver St., Manhattan.) But the hold of shipping on him was slight. Certainly he found his affairs so well managed for him that he and Theodore Jr. could go to the Himalayas for Ovis poll pelts (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE.) Now, returned and rested, he says: "I am in shipping to stay...