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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's practice was marred by two slight injuries to A squad members. O'Loughlin, 194-pound tackle, who has looked very good on defense, suffered a wrenched knee, a recurrence of an old injury. Ready, who has been filling the center post regularly, injured a nerve in the back of his leg. Both may be in shape to play Saturday, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 GRIDDERS DRILL FOR EXETER STRUGGLE | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...shadow even expert photographers do not yet know how to reproduce what they see. Under the best technical circumstances, moreover, a photograph tells precisely that fraction of truth allowed by the camera's brief interval of exposure and limited field of vision. This fraction may be very slight or very great, depending on the photographer's luck, care and awareness. To know where and when good shots can be made takes intelligence and a wakeful eye. To register them with the camera requires talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Recorded Time | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...National Velvet" Enid Bagnold won a big U. S. audience with a slight story about an English girl and a race horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of An Englishman | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Registration officers in a dozen graduate schools estimate that there will be a slight increase in the total enrollment of graduate students this year, in spite of the temporary deterrents of flood and storm a CRIMSON survey revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Schools Expect Slight Increase in Enrollment Over Last Year's Figures; Law, Business, Medical Lead | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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