Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonelection year, with the U.S. worried about inflation and high taxes, the bills have slight chance of getting past the Senate committee. But they will be back...
More than half the hospital's 3,500 patients last year suffered from stuttering, scientifically known as dysphemia. It is found in nervous, high-strung persons, may be caused, according to some speech experts, by a slight injury to the hypothalamic area in the base of the brain. The injury is aggravated by psychological troubles such as shocks, accidents, unhappy home life. A large proportion of twins are stutterers; there is also a close correlation between left-handedness or am bidexterity and stuttering...
...River evidently in deep thought, hands behind his back. But few recognized General Maxime Weygand, who tonight is still Delegate-General of the Government for French Africa with full powers to act on his own initiative in cases of emergency. Those who did bared their heads, sensing that the slight man, still athletic despite his 74 years, was engaging in a deep moral struggle...
Last week, however, both the President and the Vice President made slight gains. Don Tinto, the doctors said, had no complications. Don Gerónimo, a celebrated conciliator, had compromised some confidence into the Popular Front...
...double flooring of the building was discovered to be the cause of the smoke which a few minutes earlier had seeped through the ventilating system and caused the alarm to be turned in. Damage caused by the "conflagration," believed to have been caused by a cigarette stub, was slight...