Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being an enthusiastic reader of Jules Romains as well as of TIME, I take the opportunity of drawing your attention to a slight mistake...
...word get out that he planned to appoint a C.I.O. member to the International Labor Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four-page letter to Harry Truman. Its gist: get rid of Schwellenbach, or else...
Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
Time-trials yesterday gave the crew stroked by Howland Hall a slight edge over the two opponents, stroked by Dick Emmet and Bill Malcom, Ball's crew is composed of four former varsity and four former 150-pound Varsity oarsmen from last spring's crews. The other boats are heavier, two members of Emmet's boat having rowed on the Junior Varsity...
...citizens. Some 300,000 of them are under 21. The cause of their trouble: an injury, usually at birth or in infancy, of the motor areas of the brain, which thus lose part of their control over the nervous system. Symptoms range from the extreme of complete idiocy to slight difficulty in speech or movement...