Word: slenderness
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Eight points was the slender margin of victory Saturday evening when the Green basketball team at the close of the Dartmouth winter carnival downed Coach Wachter's quintet 28-20. But though defeated, the Crimson five played the best game it has displayed so far, bettering by far the style shown in the second Worcester Tech contest of two weeks ago. Until the middle of the first period Harvard held the lead and until the final seconds of play the victor's margin was never more than two or three points...
...itself within these modest limits. If we are to believe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the payments for the first two years will come to at least 850 millions. Past experience has shown that the estimates of those who foster large scale expenditure are apt to err upon the slender side. In this case, the law of probability favors the accuracy of the Secretary's opinion rather than the Senator's. Apparently, then, the present bill will dig pretty deeply into the pocket-books of the American public...
...evening, achieves a smooth and rapid plot-development, together with a sustained high standard of acting rarely seen in this drama. An unusually capable and well-balanced cast assists materially in avoiding the too common effect of a series of inspired monologues by Hamlet, strung on a slender thread of mediocre art. The resulting impression is far better entertainment, and affords a truer impression of the tragedy as it was written to be played...
Lautner's description is as follows: height about 6 feet 2 inches; slender; light hair, light mustache, light blue eyes, a prominent and long jaw, and thin and prominent nose; age 23; walks very erect. Probably wears a reddish brown suit, a light brown or gray overcoat, a soft felt hat and black shoes...
...named above, together with Captain Netts '21, composed last year's basketball team, which was second in the League. Princeton narrowly missed winning the championship, being defeated by Penn in the deciding game by the slender margin of one point...