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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defending champion Bill Heusner of Northwestern will give the 1949 Eastern League champion his toughest competition, but Norris is a slight favorite for the national title since he beat Heusner last summer in Detroit to qualify for the American Olympic team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norris in NCAA Title Swim Today | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...makes up the bass part. No one could have any criticism, however, of Eleanor Davis' "Laudamusic," which was altogether competent. The soprano, Phyllis Curtin, had the most difficult role of all, particularly in the jumps of the "Et incarnatus est." Though she had many exquisite tones, she showed a slight unwillingness to land decisively on a note and sustain it. Tenor Summer Crockett was inaudible at times during his soles and his voles unpleasantly constrained...

Author: By Herbert P. Glesson, | Title: The Music Box | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

Kirkland took a slight edge in the other three-way meet tying Adams 24 to 24 but beating Dunster 32 to 16. Dunster took second by topping Adams 26 to 22. Dudley forfeited a dual meet to Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbowed Bellboys Top Eliot, Bunnies, Lead Water League | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...slight drop in prices which was recovered within 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Rules. At 55, Novelist Marquand is still trying to win repose for himself but finds it a continuing and perhaps hopeless process, with daily ups & downs. He is 5 ft. ii in., with grey hair that is white about the temples, physically alert, and dieting to reduce a slight paunchiness. He and his second wife, Adelaide Hooker Marquand, and their three young children spend most of the year on his Kent's Island farm, four miles from Newburyport. When he is writing, he starts at 9:30 a.m. and dictates for four hours. That is his limit ("my metabolism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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