Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then came the mild, ever-so-gentle amendments of Mrs. Mary Teresa Norton of Jersey City, N. J., buxom chairlady of the House Labor Committee. Mrs. Norton's amendments, handiwork of New Dealers, were so slight as to be imperceptible. The House jumped on the Norton amendments ravenously. So infectious was the fun that New Dealers and Republicans joined in, soon inflated the Norton bill into a balloony caricature of a law. So many workers were exempt that Representative Frank Hook of Ironwood, Mich, heckled: "You have exempted everybody but the unemployed . . . might as well do that...
...supports the 'Yanks Are Not Coming' Committee as one of the most powerful and promising peace organizations in this country. However, the value of a ballot with this oversimplification of the issues involved in peace and war was considered by the HSU to be very slight for Harvard...
...rest of the sweepsters are running pretty closely on an equal footing, but Lowell and Leverett have been improving a little faster than have Adams, Dunster, Kirkland, and Winthrop. The difference is slight, and is really a day-today affair...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt arrived at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. for his 32nd vacation in seven years, his second breathing spell in 1940. The President devoted all his time to getting well, for he arrived with a slight temperature, a holdover from his bout of intestinal influenza...
...were almost as familiar to U. S. citizens as the family Bible. But critics thought them no great shucks. Lately rediscovered after 50 years' obscurity, Bingham's shrewd, honest, skillful genre paintings now rank with the best. Christ-Janer's up-to-date biography of the slight, religious, sharp-tongued cabinetmaker's apprentice is of most interest for its reproductions (many of the originals have vanished). To evoke the U. S. past as successfully as these paintings of flatboatmen, fur traders, political scenes, many a novelist would give his right...