Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatre. And the drama reviewers on the New York papers have more or less set the dubious standards of quality for the American theatre. There are also trade papers, weekly magazines and a few scholarly articles in Theatre Arts Monthly reviewing shows, but by and large, dramatic criticism is slight and much too subjective to support and encourage the only remaining free theatre in the world...
Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of the power to make war decisions and nearly all the responsibility remained in London; but any change at all foretold greater ones to come...
Reporting no surprising decline in general business this year, the managers of both garages felt that there was a slight falling off, probably due in part to the extra work of the students...
...since the rivalry opened in 1931 have the Indians succeeded in beating the Crimson tankmen, but this year Dartmouth rules a slight favorite to break the long-standing jinx. Unless the Crimson has all the breaks in today's meet, the chances are the Big Green will prove too strong and will take the meet handily...
...Since cosmic rays and the earth's slight natural radioactivity have identical ionizing effects, some biologists believe them to cause the small number of mutations which normally occur in all plants and animals and whose occasional increased fitness-for-survival is one of the mainsprings of evolution...