Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many individual departments made, gains. Geological Science doubled its concentrators in an increase from 13 to 26. With a slight increase of two men, Romance Languages made the only gain in Modern Languages. Chemistry, Physics, and Music showed substantial increases as well...
...TIME took Mr. Maynard's purely joking remark as it was meant, intended no slight to Mr. Patterson...
...that time their relative strength to Japan will be just about what it is now: Britain has an estimated 2,000,000 tons of seagoing strength, the U. S. 1,750,000, Japan about 1,200,000-roughly a ratio of 100-85-58.* Except for the slight lag of the U. S. behind Britain (which has always existed), this is the famous 5-5-3 ratio set by the Washington Naval Treaty way back in 1922. The Law of Naval Races having held good for 17 years, the next six are not apt to see it broken...
...stanch Amos 'n' Andy fans this means little more than a slight change in tuning, since CBS and NBC outlets duplicate each other in most important areas. But in the business of radio advertising the changeover was big doings. It indicated that henceforth Campbell Soup's huge outlay for radio advertising time (last year it was $2,279,425) would all be spent with...
...Hialeah Park, Widener Day had its troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...