Word: slight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religion. "Thirty-six percent spontaneously define religion in terms of beliefs, faith and God; 32% spontaneously define it in terms of conduct; 14% spontaneously define it by criticising it." Mass-Observation reports "a slight tendency" for more educated people to define religion in terms of belief and the less educated in terms of behavior...
...playing some of his chamber works with a touch that was firm and decisive, he got the biggest ovation given one of his countrymen in Prague since Marshal Konev liberated the city two years ago. The tribute was not so much for the compositions he had played (they were slight pieces) but for his past contribution to music. For half an hour the crowd clapped, cheered and shouted, bringing him back again & again to take nervous, bobbing little bows. Once he stumbled over the dais and almost fell headlong on the stage in his haste to retreat. Said one Czech...
From New London, a CRIMSON reporter gave the Varsity boat a slight edge over the Elis, but considered the Freshman doomed to defeat. As it turned out, the Yale Varsity came up with a three length victory over the Varsity which was then described as "inexperienced and untried," while the Crimson Freshman experienced little trouble in turning in an easy victory when the Eli yearlings craft sank from under them after a mile and a half...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
...stories of fantastic prices, poor food, primitive living conditions. But he went anyway, firmly resolved to cut corners, stretch every dollar to its limit. What he found out was that the ubiquitous black market in currency enabled tourists to eat well and travel cheaply, though there was a slight risk in patronizing...