Word: slight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to ease pressure on students who have to return reserve books by 9 a.m., Metcalf said that arrangements can be made whereby books are left at the House janitor's office, and for a slight fee returned to the library by 9 a.m. the next morning...
...China was almost bankrupt. The New York Times reported: "Military Aid for China Is Sent in Navy Vessels." EGA officials did their best to step up shipping schedules, get cargoes of rice into Shanghai, whose authorities were harassed by food riots. But it was too late for such slight and tardy assurances of friendship and aid to have much practical or spiritual effect...
...forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...
Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance...
Even if the Adams House Dining Hall does hire half a dozen more employees than the College average, a slight drop in efficiency is certainly worth the great rise in meal quality...