Word: slighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Slighter than the broken bridge at Lima is the thread upon which these, and still more, stories are strung. Seeming irrelevant, their juxtaposition reveals the curious and intricate interweaving of heterogeneous human lives. If a mystical corollary was intended, it is less important than the sheer fortuity which makes bromides say the world is such a small place after...
Composition. Milk is composed of tiny globules of fat suspended as an emulsion with casien and other proteids, lactose ("sugar of milk"), and inorganic salts. A different combination of these develops in different animals. A slighter difference occurs between the milks of two animals of the same species. Therefore a woman's milk is best for her own child, another woman's next best...
...upon the chalk-lined sward trotted the eleven purple-banded "Huskies" of the University of Washington. They slapped their padded thighs, they pranced their cleated feet. Came the slighter, nimbler Dixie boys of the University of Alabama, flitting through signal practice, twitching their pigskin this way, that...
...have good music. Sometimes they are favored with good voices. It was the peculiar perversity of this production to reverse the natural expectation. The brilliant voice of Orville Harrold is called upon to sing a score of rather ordinary quality. Assisting him was his daughter, Patti Harrold, of somewhat slighter voice and slighter figure. When these were not warbling, there were few bright spots, of which the humor...
Cyril Maude is the star and gives much the same performance as he did in Aren't We All, the delightful comedy which These Charming People vainly tries to reproduce. Mr. Maude has slighter material and therefore acts harder, a somewhat obvious device. Better even than he, was Edna Best. She is a young Englishwoman here for the first time. She is unorthodox, vaguely reminiscent of the music halls, and amazingly important in a steadily unimportant evening...