Word: slight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bounce, carries it through the opposing rush line, by the aid of good blocking and makes the last touchdown. Goal. Score 52-6. Time was called while the ball is being brought out. Perry took Sears' place for the last few minutes, as the latter had received a slight injury...
...money seems to have been spent on the library for some time and the best way to use part of the bequest left last year for its improvement is to help the ventilation. A very slight expense in this particular would go a great ways and prove to make a vast difference in the attractiveness of the place...
...Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women or with the Episcopal Theological School-without the requirement of a membership fee. One of the chief objects thus attained will be that all students alike may procure their textbooks and books of reference at wholesale cost, the Society charging a very slight profit on such books, by exceptions...
...just 5.37 the word "Go" was given, and the boats were off. The start was very even, Harvard having a slight advantage. Before the quarter mile was reached, however, Columbia had caught up with her rivals, and urged on by the frantic cheers of their supporters on land and water, the two boats flew down the river. At this point, Harvard was rowing 35 and Columbia 38 strokes to the minute...
...word both boats got off very evenly, Yale having a slight advantage. At the quarter Yale was still a little ahead, pulling thirty-seven strokes to the minute, Harvard following with thirty-five. At about this point the race was one of the prettiest ever seen on the river. The men in both eights were pulling beautifully, and the outcome was still decidedly unsettle. Yale passed the mile in 5 m. 20 s., with Harvard three seconds behind. In a short time the boats would reach the eel-grass where Yale hoped to row away from Harvard, as Harvard...