Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boulris' injury appeared to be a fairly painful charley horse, and the Crimson left halfback was limping noticeably after the game, after missing the final 25 minutes. Boulris himself said the injury was slight, but the extent to which it will keep him out of action will probably not be known until Monday...
...Dunster Funsters have gained a slight edge over other contenders in a tight race for the House fall sports championship, according to a survey of present football and soccer records...
...spite of the surface controversy, he complimented the photograph as "remarkably good." Students in Menzel's freshman seminar have verified the photograph's authenticity by examining its edges for known landmarks made visible by slight aberrations in the moon's orbit. He obtained the picture from the Associated Press...
Space Scientist Wernher von Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
These non-realistic devices are the key to the success of a play that in the reading registers as an honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude...