Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Boston Symphony of the same--and sells for half the price. Six ardent classical collectors who played the album reached the same verdict, and I quite frankly don't think that the majority of record buyers in this country, both old and new, are going to pay double for slight improvements in recording...
Thus wrote a slight, earnest university professor in a letter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger one month before the Armistice was signed. Mild as he seemed to his students, throughout the war he had held fast to his convictions and finally in October 1918 he had felt moved to protest publicly his indignation "as a Christian and an American" against the "orgy of hate" indulged in by the press and the people upon the receipt of peace overtures from the enemy...
...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
...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...