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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger & Better. After four drab war seasons, the football weekend was back. The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and see-in a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Rah, Rah, Rah . | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...these slight novels of his nonage there is little promise of Shaw's latter-day achievements (Candida, Pygmalion, over 40 other plays). Yet, in retrospect, they show horizonal flashes of the approaching storm-the brightest literary lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nonage Novels | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...sixth, or Varsity class, Pratt and Mark Tuttle, former captain of track and cross country teams, but now a graduate student, took the lead and stuck close together until well past the half-way mark at which time Pratt gained a slight lead and finally beat Tuttle by 8 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filley Triumphs in Cross Country Opener as Pratt Makes Best Time | 10/5/1946 | See Source »

...Attorney General-Tom C. Clark for Francis Biddle (slight gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: After Henry | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...center slot Charlie Glynn, six-foot ex-Air Corpsman, is holding a slight edge over Jack Fisher of the ubiquitious Fisher brothers. Both of them have looked good in the early drills, and both will see action in the Connecticut contest--and all others. Left guard is being held down by Nick Rodis, another six-footer. Rodis hails from Nashua, New Hampshire, where he shone in three sports, and he comes to Cambridge with three years of football on service teams behind him. Backing up the leaders in that center of the line are a host of capable replacements, including...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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