Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy the recommendations are similar but with slight variations to conform to the different organization of that service. Instead of representations on a "general staff" it is suggested the naval aviators should be represented in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and in the Bureau of Investigation; flying officers with general naval training should be placed in command of aircraft carriers, etc., and flying officers should be given general training as much as possible without detaching them from flying duty; no prejudice to a man's promotion should be caused by reason of his devotion to flying...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...
...while many an observer declared that he had deftly made use of both Doumer and Herriot to split the cartel, When President Doumergue called upon him once more to try to form a cabinet he was ready. After two days of dickering he got together a government, representing a slight swing to the Right from that of M. Painlevé, which it is hoped can command a majority without the Blum faction...
Early in the week cables from Arica envisioned a complete abandonment of the Commission's labors and made much of the alleged "slight" to General Pershing. Later the situation quieted. General Pershing was reported to have kept his temper and assured Seņor Edwards that the, plebiscite will be hastened on the arrival of seven U. S. officers despatched last week to Arica to aid in securing an impartial vote...
Captain Smith, Jones, Rauh, Combs, and Malick will compose one team, and they will be opposed by Eaton, Leekley, Green, Dorn, and Elberfeld. Substitutes who will figure are Eby, Slocum, Baldwin, and McCurdy. Barbee, a promising candidate, is out with a slight injury...