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Word: slightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dancing to our mind, has always had a slight capitalistic connotation--victory dancing above all. But there is nothing, to our limited knowledge, in any possible interpretation of the Marxian dialectic, which makes that recreation incompatible with the ideals of the I.L.D. What bothers us in the matter is the name of the hall where the dance is to be held. It seems to us that a place combining the names of Ritz and Plaza should be completely uncanonical and definitively heretical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/11/1934 | See Source »

...smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert (Tom Brown) whose mother, as a girl, had jilted Matthew. It is a characteristic of the lavender-&-old-lace-school in the cinema that such slight pretexts cause tremendous difficulties. It takes a normal-school career for Anne, a deathbed scene for Matthew, to reunite the lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...resident of Nashville, President Hill will soon move to Louisville. His first major task will be to air-condition L. & N. trains.* As for streamlining, he plans to "stand on the sidelines and watch others move." Slight and grey-haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Plain Jim | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Law and the Valley | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...texts in both courses include A Neyes book. "Qualitative Chemical Analysis" for laboratory procedures and about 14 pages weekly in Rammett's "Solution of Electroydes." There is one hour examination in each course and While the two very in slight details, both have capable instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reprints Confidential Guides on Second Half Year Courses Which Appeared in Pamphlet Published During Fall | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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