Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South American states, recent developments in Brazil are not wholly new to this continent. As Professor Haring points out in an interview in this morning's Crimson, the danger that the new Brazil administration is an extension of the political domain of Germany, Italy, or Japan, is slight. In fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce the impression that the Fascist scare is simply a clever smoke screen used to becloud...
Tennis goes to third place, giving way to crew, which claims but two more members over last year. The difference is found in tennis, which steadily decreased from 212 to 182 to 125. Football shows a slight increase as does soccer...
...land of the free and equal, where every mother's son had a chance to become a millionaire or President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux...
...with no section specializing in either of the two types of writing--is inadequate to the needs of the class as a whole. For with this cleavage of interest-the instructors are placed in a quandary and must either favor those taking the course to develop their technique and slight those concerned with the original work, or, if they do not favor one group or the other, the attempt to fill the needs of both generally ends by satisfying neither...
Almost certain to be contested, the final returns of the mayoralty election for Cambridge gave Mayor John D. Lynch the slight plurality of 171 votes over John W. Lyons. At request of both candidates four police officers were stationed, at the polls last night by Governor Hurley...