Word: slightly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME meant no slight to Cincinnati's well-known capacity for good music, is delighted to hear that Cincinnati's Music Hall audiences are not typical...
...Jarecki. Despite his invaluable assistance in years past, Messrs. Kelly and Nash this year found that internal considerations made it advisable to drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
...What a Life is so long on character portrayal that it is terribly short on plot, never quite masses its laughs through mounting situations, merely sprinkles them brightly at regular intervals. As slight of build as the kids it treats of, What a Life is, like them, young, lively, fast on its feet, full of agonies a first kiss or even an ice-cream soda could drive away...
Undergraduates have known him this year as a tall bespectacled German with only a slight accent, who spoke frequently in the Houses before he left at midyears to lecture for the rest of the winter at Oxford University...
...pills are medical miracles, and Harvard men should pass on the blessing to the rest of the world in large-faced type. But to every action, according to physics, there is a reaction; and after every stimulant, whether caffein or marijuana, therefore, comes a let-down. Perhaps it is slight; perhaps the effect is scarcely noticeable; but there is an effect. Taking caffein pills without doctor's orders might well lead to insomnia and general irritability. This certainly is no way to finish an evamination, nor is it the easy path toward resumption of studies. On the contrary, the ensuing...