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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carefully considered, however, the reparations problem seemed none too healthy. Weeks of negotiations had brought the demands of the creditors and the offers of the Germans within striking distance of each other. Comparatively slight concessions on either hand would bring about an agreement, but it was just these final concessions that seemed last week impossible to obtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Impasse | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kings Like Wells | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...some degree the pressure for class room space that is being felt in increasing measure in the University offices. The present class room space is entirely inadequate as has been previously pointed out in various reports from the University offices and the new found space will serve in a slight degree to fill the temporary breach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENOVATIONS IN BOYLSTON TO BE COMPLETED BY FALL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...Union defeated Yale 7 to 5, while Harvard was defeated by a 9 to 1 count. Although this would seem to give Yale some edge, the fact that the games were played early in the season and the Crimson players have been improving steadily ever since would discount any slight advantage. Yale's season has not been very successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY STICKMEN TO MEET YALE TOMORROW | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

AIRDROME RAIDED-FOURTEEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED COLUMBUS R. R. YARD WRECKED CINCINNATI WIPED OUT RAID REPULSED-FOUR BOMBERS DOWN-CREWS KILLED-OUR LOSSES SLIGHT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Mimicry | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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