Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valley Stream, N. Y., George Bishop tried to commit suicide by grinding up five electric light bulbs and eating them. Doctors found he had only a slight case of indigestion. Glass Eater Bishop used to eat glass in a side show...
...accredited) Ambassador Willys said: "No matter what happens the Soviet Government will endure. Even if the Five-Year Plan should fail, the Soviet leaders would simply launch another plan. There is no fear in Poland of a war with Russia, and the likelihood of war anywhere in Europe is slight. Poland is weathering the depression with energy and fortitude...
Unlike most native efforts the Erskine-Gruenberg opera profited by pretending to be no more than it appeared. No advance ballyhoo proclaimed it as a great U. S. achievement or suggested that it would be taken up by the world's great opera houses. The production, in its slight way, perfectly expressed the satirical charm of the libretto. The singers, all promising Juilliard students, had been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should...
While other captains of industry have cudgeled their brains to sell luxuries to an impoverished world, the publishers have suffered a relatively slight depreciation in the sale of books. And now they have happily hit upon a scheme to give their wares the character of a necessity. The American Book-sellers Association and the National Association of Book Publishers have offered to cooperate with the President's Relief Organization. Furthermore, the offer has been flatteringly accepted by Mr. Walter S. Gifford...
...cars passing over metal plates sunk in the pavement. Neither road will have the right of way, but a car passing over the plates will set the lights in its favor if a car on the other artery is not already at the intersection. In periods of dense and slight traffic the signals will change at fixed intervals...