Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons alleged for the suppression of the Lampoon--the desecration of the American flag, and the reproduction, with slight changes, of a famous painting hanging in the Luxembourg, are almost too puerile to merit credence."--Liberal Club...
...reasons alleged the desecration of the American flag, and the reproduction with slight changes of a famous painting banging in the Luxembourg are almost too puerile to merit credence. It seems clear that in this case the guardians of our patriotism and morals approach the stage of being nuisances rather than legitimate defenders. C. T. Lane '26. President of the Liberal Club...
...went to court. Justice William Hitz of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction forbidding the sale, gave the Dollar Company until Apr. 15 to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. The legal grounds for the injunction appear to be slight except for the general grounds of "public policy" used in the advocacy of the Pacific Mail...
...return for the slight cancer relief they have effected, for the innumerable swallowed forks, wandering needles, fractured bones, molar cavities they have located, Röntgen or X-rays have levied heavy toll on the flesh of Science. Last week, the press carried accounts of Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer, Professor of Röntgenology at Johns Hopkins University, who has undergone 52 digi- tal amputations in 16 years as the result of continuous work with X-rays. Burns from malignant constituents of the rays induce a disintegration of the tissues called radiodermitis. Dr. Baetjer's sacrifices to his work...
...longer a national hero, the Judge, slight of body, poor of purse,* is left to fight the Klansmen practically alone. And reported as leagued with the Klansmen on this occasion are all the "forces of evil" which the Judge's reforms irritated in the halcyon days of Rooseveltian reform and Wilsonian new freedom...