Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams look almost even in strength, although comparative scores give the Crimson golfers a slight margin of superiority. They defeated Williams last week with the loss of only one match, while the Green victory over the same opponent was by the score...
...indicative of a condition which is universal among college students, as is very likely, the man who was murdered some seasons ago for saying that undergraduates were more intelligent today than when he was in college should be awarded a niche in the Hall of Fame as a slight token of apology from a repentant society. His statement, apparently, had some slight foundation of fact...
...Rosenbach did not leave his treasures, including the hair and the strange little box with the mass window in the hands of their original owners. In most of its manifestations, especially where it is a question of chewing gum wrappers and clear capons the mania of collection serves some slight purpose, but when if details an expenditure of over over a million dollars, and results mainly a fascinating juts of corpses, the game seems hardly worth the candle Phere are so many more interesting things that a really clever scender could do with the money...
...interest which has been aroused by the award of these prizes of slight pecuniary value is significant. Most of the Utopias of social reformers have foundered upon the reef of man's inherent self-seeking; and the necessity of the spur of personal gain has come to be frankly recognized. The greatest works of art and literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress...
...paper Princeton has a slight advantage, and Yale a considerable one. One ardent track follower who has already run both meets through with his pad and pencil, declares that the final score of the Harvard-Princeton meet will result in a 69-36 victory for the Tigers; while the Yale track men will have the substantial margin...