Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There was nothing sensational about these actions. This was typical: Henry Wallace, a pleasant-appearing, embarrassed man with an honest eye and a slight touch of hay fever, drove into the farming community of St. Peter, Minn, to campaign as the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. A Democratic National Committeewoman lives in St. Peter; nevertheless something had gone wrong. St. Peter citizens did not know the candidate was in town, did not even know that he was coming...
...doorway near the hotel stood prematurely grey, slight Whitelaw Reid, 27-year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Ogden Reid, publishers of the New York Herald Tribune. Son Reid, a Herald Tribune war correspondent since last June, emerged unharmed. His doorway did not fall...
Among the "chiselers" to take advantage of this frozen price situation was a midtown Manhattan shop, Quality House. Last spring, selling well under list, it was haled to court. The store's attorney was slight, fast-talking Charles W. Newmark, formerly an aide of Gangbuster Tom Dewey. He began looking for an angle. On May 23 he found it, rocked the Council on its heels by charging restraint of trade. "By threatening to boycott distillers' brands," said he, "[the Council has] compelled and coerced distillers and distributors to adopt this agreed-upon markup of 40%." This was "horizontal...
...happen by November 16 when the Bruins invade the stadium. If they can plug those gaps, their classy backfield will be heard from. Harvard-Yale games are almost impossible to predict, even the ay before, but at this writing the Harlowmen seem to have a slight edge. They outrushed and outpassed the Elis last fall and lost only through fumbles. Yale will be a bit better than it was in 1939, but it should take more than that to upset Harvard again...
Matt Howard (Gary Grant) is a husky, handsome backwoodsman with a slight Scottish accent who woos and wins Jane Peyton (Martha Scott), a well-heeled Tory from Williamsburg, Va. Matt Howard takes his bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures...