Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This plan (which four members of the Cabinet are now pondering, and expect to adopt with slight modifications) would meet economic force with force. Its big proposal: to buy up all South America's exportable surplus...
...haughtily announced Russia would treat with nothing less than an Ambassador. The British Government hurriedly raised Sir Stafford to that rank, replacing Ambassador Sir William Seeds, who had been in London "on leave" since January. Sir Stafford hastened on to Moscow from Athens, hoping Stalin would overlook one more slight...
Captain Gay Dillingham's Varsity polo team meets the Army malletmen in the first round of the National Intercollegiate Outdoor Polo Championship tomorrow afternoon. The Crimson, playing in the Westwood field recently given to the College by W. Cameron Forbes, is rated a slight favorite over the Cadets...
...Nazi said that 277 Allied ships were sunk or damaged, as against very slight losses for the German navy. They claimed to have captured 1,200-000 Allied troops, and to have lost only 61,000 of their own men, killed, wounded and captured. They said they destroyed 35,000 British and French planes against only 432 German ships lost...
Henry Reiss 2GB, student representative for the "Queen Wilhelmina Fund", reported "only a slight response so far" to the appeal which he made in a letter published in the CRIMSON of May 27. However, he predicted better results after further publicizing through some medium such as posters in the Houses...