Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hated more virulently by her enemies, shunned by many of her friends, France found that the price of collecting her due was almost prohibitive. Some 15 months later, she was morally a heavy loser if materially a slight gainer when a body of international experts under the now U. S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes marched to Berlin for an economic survey of the country...
...these slight ruffles he retained both his composure and his reticence. Grave, deliberate, costly, he has gone on utilizing the genius with which few who deify him as a thinker, apotheosize him as a tragedian, credit him the genius for being funny...
...Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Minnesota are endemically affected. More than one-third of the states of the U. S. have, from time to time, recorded cases. Massachusetts provides state institutional care for lepers. It is almost impossible for leprosy to spread in the climate of the Northern U. S. So slight is the danger of infection that the act of destroying the school effects of the young Newark lazars was rather a sop to Nemesis than a scientific necessity...
Because of the rain, the field (at Hurlingham) was mud, a pony slipped; because of the slip, Captain J. B. Dening of the British Army's polo team fell on his poll and suffered a slight concussion of the brain. No one, however, went so far as to suggest that it was because of this lamentable accident that the U. S. team won by 6 goals to 4 the second and deciding game of their series (TiME, June 29) against the British. The former was better mounted, more vigorous. Through the gray drizzle of the afternoon, ambassadors and noblemen...
...large man, Stewart Edward White, ather slight, in fact, small of hand, small of feature, finely drawn lines, academic, refined, wearing glasses -a proper man for a writing desk, for an 18th Century escritoire even. But he has put in some few solid years lumber jacking, he has hunted and trapped in nearly every wild section of the world. "For my part, I am going to give the lion and the tiger a sporting chance. I shall hunt them with the bow and arrow...