Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knox, the official scout for the University, had more specific comments to make. "Dartmouth was clearly two touchdowns better than Yale last Saturday", he told the CRIMSON reporter. "It has a team this year every bit as good as the one that beat us last year. To counterbalance the slight weakening of the defense, it has a more effective offense...
...survey of the ballots of the well-known members of the Law School faculty shows that their vote was well split up between Coolidge and Davis, the former having a slight lead. The La Follette vote was very meagre...
...author feels that his whole literary life may be destroyed by a spiteful commentator, and if his work has no real merit, that is what is likely to happen. It is the resentment which any craftsman feels on having his work weighed and condemned, or perhaps accorded some slight mead of praise, by a mere layman. The obvious solution is to admit that critics are also authors and that the creation of an intelligent reading public, which is the critic's function, is no less essential than the creation of good literature, which is the sphere of the author...
Blanks applying for seats at the big games might be included in the contents of each man's registration envelope. It would then rest with him whether he wished to incur the slight expense of having the tickets sent him by registered mail. If not be would call for them in person. Certainly enough applicants would be willing to have their tickets mailed to them to relieve materially congestion...
...regulars are in good condition with the exception of Oberlander, whose injury is slight. He was hit on the head in the Yale game last week, and was dared Leavitt, who started against Harvard last fall, has been playing an exceptionally good game, both on the offense and on the defence. The other men who started against Harvard last year are Bjorkman, Diehl, Dooley, Hall, and Oberlander...