Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh has only created a great argument about the motives of the Spotless One. These tactics will do them no good, for the cogent and unanswerable fact that, men have made enormous and illegitimate fortunes out of government subsidies fraudulently obtained still remains, and if there has been some slight injustice done--and this is most unlikely--it is far outweighed by the good that will derive from the cleaning up of an intolerable mess. Mr. Roosevelt's action in this case has been thoroughly courageous and essentially correct; the tactics of his opponents, particularly in the Lindbergh affair...
...President's face. The smile is as bright as ever but the flesh has aged perceptibly. Colds have caused the President most of his trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard the Sequoia to eradicate. Last time that...
Readers of the first volume (TIME, June 5) will have only a slight advantage over newcomers. The 65 characters have grown to more than 100 but their relationships remain comparatively simple. In many cases they are still unaware that they inhabit the same city-book. Some of them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils...
...temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called the Biblical simplicity of Fisher's style is a characteristic that appears only in the best of it; a slight falter in Biblical simplicity can produce a very unBiblical dullness...
...Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...