Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns were first developed by Major General Bishop, the head of the Field Artillery, and to him their economical operation is their most prominent feature. Apparently the army has in stock a supply of the .22 blanks, and the bearings used are of the ordinary commercial type, obtainable at slight cost, and which may be used over again...
...police saved the lives of six prisoners who had been picked up in the streets, sentenced to be hanged "within three hours." Word reached Austria's Christian Socialist President Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, silent at his home all through the days of bloodshed, that the evidence against them was slight. But time was passing. At the end of three hours the policemen turned the clock back, sent out for coffee with whipped cream. Soon up rushed the State's Attorney, waving reprieves like the warden in a melodrama. "Thank God, I am not too late!" he gasped. The smiling...
...president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood to fame & fortune in Chicago was a sinewy physique, a permanent tan, a slight twang...
...present series of that party's collapses. Bound by the toils of the Marxian dialectic, the Stalinites could not consistently admit the presence in Austria of a revolutionary movement. It did not bear the approved brand, it preserved a united from of reds and pinks (which was no slight triumph of leadership), and it took no orders from the Kremlin...
...punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant, Mr. Glover, most of the blame for the whole affair must rest...