Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Marin, Paris savant, stated that the number of women having slight growths of hair on their lips and chins have increased 10 per cent. Cocktails, cigarettes and certain chemicals used as ingredients in cosmetics are the ascribed causes...
...beat J. M. Masters '25 in the three hardest rounds of the evening. Although he knocked Masters down in the second round with a terrific left to the jaw, the latter came back and made an unusually strong finish. In the third both men were groggy but Forsyth's slight superiority in aggressiveness gave him the judges' verdict...
...separate men into groups which served the purpose for which the tests were devised. It was found that nine out of ten men receiving an A or B in the examinations obtained commissions, while the chances of a C minus or D man obtaining a commission were extremely slight...
...last three years to strain relations between these two governments. When the Turks, fired by a new nationalism, began to sweep into Europe, the British were very surprised to see the French Government withdrawing its troops from the joint guard, leaving English troops alone at Chanak. But this slight misunderstanding was dispelled when France and England together forced the Turk to accept the terms of the armistice at Mudania. They were acting again in harmony at Lauzanne, with peace apparently in sight, when the conference suddenly came to a dead stop and the delegates departed with no treaty signed...
Medford High School, running in Class C, kept a slight lead, finishing the course in 3 minutes 17 3-5 seconds, the best time of the meet. The Medford team, composed of Moore, Lewis, Hormel, and Kelley, was always hard-pressed by their opponents, and ran excellently. The feature race of the afternoon was the final event of the meeet between Boston English and Latin, the latter winning in 3 minutes 18 seconds. Haggerty, the first man for Latin, after getting away to a fast start was overtaken and passed by McKillop, who gave a five-yard lead...