Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fold advantage. In the first place, American works often offer American readers an easier comprehension of literary materials, those employed being more familiar than sources plumbed by English writers. But in view of the richness of English sources and the catholicity of literature generally, this advantage is slight. The second is rather more substantial. A sufficient knowledge of American literature is all but essential to a balanced estimate of American society. If untutored in American literature since grammar school days, the college student will return to vague memories of "Barbara Frietsche" and so, meditating, will omit literature from consideration...
...game of lacrosse in England has had a slight development in over 40 years. The rapid development of the game in this country has covered a much shorter term, and the styles of play in the two countries have become very different. The visit of the Oxford-Cambridge team gave us a chance to note the two different styles of play, and to adopt or pass by any features which may or may not appeal to the American experts
...side," "Come to Passaic and see how we live"-fluttered about the paths of the White House. Three men, two women, six little children from Passaic, N. J., strike scenes carried them. But Everett Sanders, Presidential secretary, gently waved them away, informing the picketers that the President had a slight attack of indigestion...
...Secretary Sanders was mistaken. The President did not have indigestion. Shortly after four o'clock he strolled back to the executive offices. He canceled his engagements that morning, he said, because of a slight cold. Having napped, he felt much better...
...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...