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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, the figures contrast with those from Princeton, which has had 700 more applications this year than last. Yale also has registered a slight increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Expects 1100 To Enter Next Autumn | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson varsity lacrosse team rates a slight edge over Williams this afternoon at 3 p.m. on the Business School field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Ten Set To Meet Williams | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...same time Macmillan set out to put British relations with Egypt back on a businesslike basis. He announced slight easements of Britain's financial squeeze on Egypt and disclosed the two countries soon will begin discussing a dollars-and-cents accounting...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Britain Resumes Suez Shipping On Egypt's Terms; Announces Easements of Financial Squeeze | 5/14/1957 | See Source »

...rubble of the Third Reich. The one-act play was intended only for a church group, but so intimately did it speak to the anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes Babylon, Nineveh, Nazi Germany and Judgment Day. With much Pirandello-style shifting of role and perspective, the play is a theodicy-a justification of the ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Sentencing of God | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Dignity and dumbness I have generally found to be synonymous." "It isn't what a politician says, but what he whispers that gives a slight clue to what he is thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A POL'S HANDBOOK | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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