Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slight, shy, with clear brown eyes and a strong jaw, the 45-year-old prelate has one of the world's minor sees. There are only three hospitals, three parishes, two elementary schools, 400 Catholics. Of Iceland's 120,000 people, 94,000 are Lutherans. Like those in Denmark, they are High-Church, wear Mass vestments, etc. Some 20,000 Icelanders profess no faith at all. They live on isolated farms, so church-going is a good deal of a chore...
...mission that Washington called "Military." With his American hosts the French leader will talk over details of equipping the French Army of liberation now forming in North Africa. But General Giraud's trip to America had inevitable political effects. Followers of De Gaulle saw it as a slight to their leader, another mark of official U.S. antipathy to Gaullism, another tactless act that would alienate the French people from...
...time I have been exposed to the various technical and electronic expressions thrown so carelessly about in conversation by our modern Marconis. Once foreign words like "oscillator", "impedance", and "curve" (this last foreign only in the professional sense) are now familiar jargon to me, though I must confess a slight haze still obscures their true meaning. My first contact with these "cathodic terms" produced some strange reactions...
...Ying Sung, our Chinese researcher, is a Wellesley graduate who spent five years as Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
...prove his forecast's reasonableness Mr. Collyer pointed out that before the war China's annual per capita rubber consumption was only .03 lb., Russia's only .3 lb. v. a 10-lb. average for U.S. citizens. With even a slight increase in foreign consumption, synthetic rubber and natural rubber could live together in peace & quiet...