Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...laymen led the field in the election for moderator: a stanch New Dealer, 71-year-old ex-Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, and a 35-year-old Maine Republican, Ronald Bridges, brother of New Hampshire's Senator H. Styles Bridges. Sweet won by 16 votes. Slight, precise Congregationalist Sweet retired from a thriving brokerage business in Denver in 1920, "to give my full time to politics and religion," believes in the "application of the Christian religion to social and economic life...
Actually, serious injuries during games are not common, and no one is more vehement than Gus Thorndike on the physical benefits of athletics. It is true, he says, that more accidents occur in football per playing hour than in any other game. But the injuries are usually slight, consist mostly of sprained ankles, wrenched knees, muscle bruises. Only compound fracture he ever treated in an athlete was suffered by a baseball player who slid to second base. Hockey seldom produces more than minor cuts, although the worst case Dr. Thorndike ever treated was a hockey player who lost...
...Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, Illinois-born, graduate of Vassar College in 1881. Wife of a Manhattan schoolmaster, George Strobell, Mrs. Strobell had three ancestors in General Washington's Army. Slight Mrs. Strobell became a Socialist in 1898, was a pioneer in birth-control research, has no children...
...tain Government followed up its severance of relations by heaping Gallic recrimination upon the head of its late Entente partner. His voice knife-sharp with bitterness, the Foreign Minister charged: England had provided only slight military aid to France, thinking selfishly solely of the defense of the British Isles, and must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal...
Fight fans saw a slight improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...