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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police feel there may be a very slight possibility that the body is entangled in a boat mooring, but if that is the case sooner or later the corpse is bound to rise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burgess Suicide Theory Discarded by Police As Body Fails to Rise to Surface of Charles River | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...have tried to prove that sectional pride (civic, etc.) produced the most "ulcers"; I was wrong. Slight on: Sectional Pride Religion M.B.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Slight on : Politics Personal Hero

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Just a slight mental case," commented a speculator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Detectives and Student Pickets Move to Combat Swarming Speculators | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

Mogul emperors four centuries ago in India hung wetted grass mats over the doors and windows on the windward side of their palaces. A slight breeze might then cool their throne rooms as much as 20°. In 1901, somewhat the same idea occurred to a young Buffalo engineer named Willis Carrier, now the 60-year-old chairman of Carrier Corp., only major U. S. company devoting itself exclusively to air conditioning. The rather obvious idea of the Mogul emperors has grown into an industry that is sometimes compared to aviation in its infancy, highly technological and full of financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carrier to Syracuse | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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