Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimenters placed oxygen in a test tube and induced a high excitation in it by electricity; they then examined the gas through a spectroscope and compared the results with the spectrum of the solar corona. Although a slight discrepancy appears in these observations, it can be readily accounted for by the inability to produce in the laboratory the exact conditions...
...would much rather have gone into research, loathed the small-town society to which he felt condemned. Lixlee was an ignorant, half-savage backwoods girl whom well-meaning Anna had "rescued"' and started off as a maid-of-all-work. Lixlee was a natural born maneater. Having a slight cast in one eye. her direct gaze (which she rarely unleashed) had a disturbingly hypnotic effect, especially on men. She knocked Anson over with the first glance. Married to Lixlee and enjoying a completely pagan nightlife, he perked up considerably. One night, because he had to tear himself from...
Other business to be considered will deal with the annual budget, the appointment of a Junior to be in charge of Freshman affairs, and the correction of a slight error in the Constitution...
...Vagabond began armed with the firm resolve to provide his gentle readers with an introduction to Professor Boring's lecture on Night Vision. It seemed proper to have a slight knowledge of the subject, something awe-in-spring even if superficial. So he set out, diligently to plumb Night Vision's mysteries. His searching hand paused before the shelf and drew down "The Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index...
...chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes his desire, there are, of course, complications. In a chivalric moment he abducts runaway Madeliene from her knife-throwing guardian, Pedro. As you probably have already guessed, the ending is not unusual, nor should...