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Word: slight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students' furniture repaired and re upholstered at very slight cost. Camp chairs let for all occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1887 | See Source »

...fire broke out in the old laboratory at Yale yesterday in which the Cooperative store has its rooms. A few of the articles were lost, but beyond this the society will suffer little loss. The damage to the building was slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

...less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes be of a bridge over our raging yard torrents - which we now must ford - of additional dormitories, of a better class of goodies - the hiring of whom with the present pittance for wages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

...cases where the offence was slight or caused by some accident, the librarian has always been very lenient; it is only the cases of gross, inexcusable carelessness, that the punishment is inflicted to its full extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I would like to take this occasion to thank the management of Memorial Hall for a slight alleviation of the hardships to which the boarders in the hall are exposed. The cause of my gratitude is the improvement in the character of that article which comes to us fourteen times a week, and each time generally weaker, and more ethereal than the last. In short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

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