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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year slight, greying Josephine Roche became heir to the minority interest of her late conservative father, John J. Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: R. M. F. | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...REGATTA MYSTERY-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Nine short stories, with Hercule Poirot starring in some, Mr. Parker Pyne in others. Ingenious and slight. (Some have appeared in magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: June Mysteries | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Brenda Putnam learned to sculp at the National Cathedral School in Washington and later under James Earle Fraser, Libéro Andreotti and Alexander Archipenko. Brown-eyed, dark-banged, slight and lively, she has worked and taught for years in a roomy studio on Manhattan's West 22nd Street. Summers, she and her father, Herbert Putnam, knock around in a sloop at North Haven, Me. Most of the last three years she has devoted to her book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brenda's Book | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...possibility that the Bollesmen can sink the Elis and thus set a precedent is great, with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 7 sides). Best recording to date of a slight, charming work, written when the composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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