Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be continued although it is indicated that some slight modifications are under consideration...
Students selecting this course of study will choose the present field of American Government as their special field. Some slight changes may be made in the Departmental examination to take account of any deficiencies of preparation for students in this field as compared with those who have had more work in such subjects as international relations or political theory. The Department recommends, however, that all students do some work in political theory either in courses or in tutorial reading...
...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
Many people are allergic or sensitive to chemicals such as turpentine, T.N.T., formaldehyde, fulminate of mercury, picrates, synthetic dyes, etc. Slight exposure to them is often harmless, but prolonged exposure or a sudden "overdose" may cause the worker to become sensitized, so that thenceforth even slight exposure produces eruptions or scaliness on his hands, arms, face, body. In one summer half the workers in a Pennsylvania plastics factory had dermatitis when they became sensitized to the formaldehyde in the material...
...death, and it is now killing more older women than tuberculosis. From 2% to 3% of all living Americans will eventually die of diabetes.* What is the explanation? Why are more & more people unable to use or store the sugar in the food they eat? To a very slight degree this rise is a statistical illusion. In the last 40 years more people have been going to doctors, and more doctors have begun looking for diabetes. In the past diabetes was sometimes overlooked as a cause of death, but statistics have become increasingly reliable...