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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese failed to better their positions anywhere in the Pacific except for a slight advance in Malaya, and from Tokyo itself the Japanese were warned that enemy submarines menaced Nipponese home waters...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Roosevelt Promises War Will Continue Until "Liberty Is Again Secure in World We Live In" | 12/16/1941 | See Source »

...American forces in the Philippines penned invading Japanese in three isolated sectors in an effort to out them to pieces, U. S. bombers blasted two more Japanese troop transports and further Japanese air attacks were beaten off with slight damage. American garrisons defending Wake and Midway Islands still held...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Roosevelt Promises War Will Continue Until "Liberty Is Again Secure in World We Live In" | 12/16/1941 | See Source »

Because of its five returning lettermen who took part in last year's Crimson victory, Harvard appears to be the slight favorite in tonight's tussle, but Coach Brown, who has coached every man except two on the Bruin squad, says that the game will be a toss...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowse, | Title: Crimson Meets Brown Five In First Real Test Tonight | 12/10/1941 | See Source »

...than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grown-Up Prodigy | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, makers of Two-Faced Woman, stood their ground and said they would not change the picture, pointed out that it had been approved by the Motion Picture Production Code Administration and had passed all the State censorship boards with only a few slight alterations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To See Is to Sin | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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