Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middick is nice Pasadena's exclusive country club. Midwick does not think that Hollywood is nice. But last week at a polo match at Midwick between the Actors and the Producers for the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Midwick and Hollywood met socially with a slight hiss of conversation. For a week before the game local society and sporting pages had been ballyhooing the event. The Producers team would consist of Walter Wanger, a hard-working non-scorer; Frank Borzage of long low-goal experience; Mike Curtiz, who took "ill" at the last moment...
Bill Shallow, mainstay in the hammer throw, has been forced to go easy in practice because of a slight injury. Although he will take part in Saturday's meet, he has not as yet had sufficient work to reach his top notch form of last year
Opposed to these men are Admiral Rolf Carls, whose slight acquaintance the British made off Spain in 1936-37 when he was there in the Deutschland, and Admiral General Alfred Saalwächter, a former U-boat commander, sent out to assist Carls in Adolf Hitler's cold-blooded act of sacrificing his scattered Navy to gain windows on the Atlantic. Opposed to that sacrifice, on the ground that the situation it would create could not be maintained, was the German Navy's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, again reported last week...
...make grass fit for human consumption, the chemists dried, bleached and ground the leaves of wheat, barley, oats and rye, produced a white powder with a slight malt flavor. The scientists ate this grass all winter, caught no colds, enjoyed excellent health. Three U. S. factories and one Canadian are now making powdered grass. Approximate cost...
...original radiation, coming from the lead-wire, was so slight that only nearby buildings could get the programs. Steel framework deflected the waves so that only radios with outside antennas could receive...