Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the well-bred walkout was reportedly the Viceroy's intention to modernize the administration of India's many petty states* in line with "changing times." Sensing a slight to their sovereignty, the princes were indicating their alarm at the "tendency to alter the States' relationship with the Crown." Some of the ruffled rulers even talked of "browbeating." Most sulked in their, princely mahals (palaces...
Reform of Production. Almost simultaneously with his governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...
...over, including Selective Service preinductees, with a knowledge of mathematics and physics and a slight knowledge of radio and electricity, are eligible to take an examination at the Navy Rerouting Station. Men under draft age or those waiting for induction, will be assured of being assigned to naval service if they complete the test successfully...
...cigar smokers last week got good news: OPA ordered manufacturers to start making "five-cent" cigars-something the consumer had not seen since last summer. There was the usual slight hitch: the 5? cigar will cost the smoker 7½?. But the 90% of U.S. cigar smokers who ordinarily smoke nickel cigars, have been paying from 10? to 25? for brands they never heard...
Isotopes and Hafnium. The work of the chemistry prizewinner, Hevesy, was related to the physicists' researches. He studied atoms by means of X rays and isotopes (slight variations in chemical elements which differ from each other only in radiactivity or atomic weight). By X-ray analysis, Hevesy discovered hafnium, No. 72 in the table of elements...