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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crews with cautions rowing this week with slight changes in the seatings, and with the possible advancement of some men from the class crews which are being coached by C. J. Hubbard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATTS STROKES SENIOR EIGHT TO CLOSE VICTORY | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...themselves down rather hopelessly into nine leather chairs around a table at the State Department. One was a Secretary of State with two assistants. One was a Secretary of War with one assistant. One was a Secretary of the Navy with two assistants. Into the ninth chair slid the slight frame of Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and his country's most inveterate limitation-of-arms conferee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Disarmament | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...contrast with the great use made of the advisory body in the fall, only a handful of Freshmen last year turned to the committee for aid in electing a field of concentration. That this slight interest from the advisees justifies the amount of time spent by the committee in keeping office hours is extremely doubtful. By spring the Freshmen are acclimated to the situation and are well equipped to secure information on the question of concentration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FIFTH WHEEL | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

People throughout the world last week looked and looked at pictures of "Captain Barker," the woman who long persuaded the British Army that she was Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, a "Mons man," a devoted husband, a first rate boxer (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Callipygian Captain | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...that she had worn men's clothes, or even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Callipygian Captain | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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