Word: slight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local trend, in contrast to a slight decline in sales reported in New York during the past few days, has been a continued increase in the volume of purchases...
...athletic room-mate all sorts of ski equipment can be produced, and for the man who wants only four A's for Christmas, you might make a slight gesture in the form of an alarm clock. The guy who is looking for a blond may find that he will cut a much gayer figure in a nylon shirt, a suede or plaid vest and a new hat. All this apparel is filling up a lot of women's Christmas lists...
...much of its inherent tension by overacting. But it has a variety of unpretentious and believable sets (notably those around its drugstore corner) put together by someone who knew sidestreet architecture and atmosphere. By even so modest a merit-and by trying to be nothing more than the slight time killer it is-Tension manages to be more entertaining than some of Hollywood's grander products...
Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly mustache, he made some people think of "a distorted brownie." The nostrils of his long aquiline nose quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals...
...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...