Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work will consist of soliciting advertisements and getting subscriptions, with a certain amount of clerical work at the office. The competition is long but this is in its favor as the whole work is spread over a larger field and is therefore made more practical as well as lighter for the individual. From three to five candidates are usually taken on to the business staff at the close of the competition...
...recognizes in the November Monthly, as contrasted with last year, a lighter and more graceful touch, sacrificing perforce something of robustness and broad appeal, much as would have been expected had the chief editorship passed to Mr. Nathan. The somewhat too numerous and too brief "items," written chiefly-vae victorious-by the editors, leave an impression of studied word painting with little that demands expression...
Practice this week will be somewhat lighter than usual, and the scrimmaging will probably be limited to two days...
...saving its best strategy to use against Harvard was plainly shown in the former's game against Williams on Saturday. Without the services of five of its most valuable men the Tiger eleven by means of simple, straight football battered out a 27 to 0 victory over the lighter team from the Berkshires. Williams, though outweighed and outclassed, nevertheless, withstood staunchly the Tigers' attack in the first half and held the victors to a single touchdown. In the second half, however, Princeton's persistent hammering told upon the Purple eleven and three more touchdowns were piled up. Shea...
...thing is a trifle overdone. The undergraduate departed last summer, thanking Providence and the benefactors of the University that at last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme might be toned down with great advantage...