Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surtaxes, beginning with 1% on $10,000 and advancing to 40% at $500,000 (Senate), or beginning with 1½ on $10,000 and advancing to 37½% at $200,000 (House). On the settlement of this difference, slight though it is, will largely depend the question of whether the bill will bear a Democratic or Republican label...
...iron and steel, high cost copper properties, automobiles and railroad equipment. Still other industries, like the oils, have been sick and are now getting through their convalescent period. The whole question is whether the present recession in business will broaden and lengthen into a depression, or prove only a slight halt in operations. When things get bluest will be the time to plan on renewed activity. But that time has not yet arrived...
...overwhelming defeat of the University may be called a decided track upset. On the eve of the contest, the two teams had seemed of very nearly equal strength. It was conceded that Princeton had a slight scoring advantage, but Harvard was allowed better than an outside chance to gather together the 68 points necessary to win the meet. Consequently, the tigers overwhelming, two-to-one victory was distinctly upsetting to all predictions...
Coach Davidson's Freshman nine will meet the first of the season's two objective games when the erratic Princeton 1927 nine visits the Freshman field this afternoon. Harvard has come fast of late, and is rated as a slight favorite over the tiger cubs...
Comparative scores point to a Crimson victory tomorrow, for although both teams have lost matches to the Baltimore Country Club and Columbia, the margin of defeat suffered by the University was extremely slight in both cases. Moreover the Princeton team is inexperienced, being composed of material from last year's second and Freshman teams. Their strength is not to be underrated, however, for they have at times, particularly during the first part of the season, shown; great potentialities. If they recoved from the slump of the past two matches, they should improve last year's record...