Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, 61, who thought he might be able to take it easy once the nine-month-long Communist trial ended last month, had met a slight delay: he tried to read 50,000 congratulatory letters, arranged for acknowledging them. Last week, after taking in the Princeton-Yale game, he and his wife set off for a three-month vacation at an unannounced destination. Said he: "I'm not going to make any speeches anywhere or run for anything. What I want to do most is to rest...
...opening day, visitors slowly circled the room, later clustered in a corner to congratulate the artist, who favored each of them with a slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita...
...Little, Columbia coach: "Yale has a slight edge but breaks will make the game...
Mathews and Lionel are rated as equals, despite the slight difference in their records. Mathews has scored 132 points to their opponents' 26, while Lionel has made 85 as compared to their opponents...
While a higher gold price would probably have little effect on domestic prices, some thought that there was still a chance that it might give the U.S. another slight whiff of inflation. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, recently resigned member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, thought that "any tinkering with the dollar at this moment of delicate domestic and international adjustment would be one of the surest roads to demoralization and possible disaster...