Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will hold only two competitions during the year, but the News and Photographic departments will have three, and there will be four business competitions. None of these competitions will be more than 12 weeks in length. In all cases, the dates given below for the competitions are subject to slight change...
...here this afternoon, and held a commanding position all the way down the course, crossing the finish line five lengths ahead in an impressive victory; the time was 20 minutes 54 seconds, considered very good despite the fact that the crews were aided by a following wind and a slight tide...
...change in direction of a star as the observer was carried in the space of six months from one side to the other of the orbit 186,000,000 miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line, the shift in a stars position is so slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible...
...bounds of reason. Present conditions cannot be allowed to continue--and to grow worse. If there are men in the College who are of the type that have to be watched continually, the rest of us are, or should be, more than willing to undergo inconvenience and a slight personal indignity in order to weed them out . . . Or, as a last resort, the Reading Room could he closed entirely. The Stacks are still there; and it is better to have no Reading Room at all than to depend upon it, only to have it so grossly abused...
Meanwhile Brown had been holding his crew to a slightly lower stroke, and when the seconds dropped the beat after their spurt, the first eight began to creep up again. All the way down the lower Basin the two crews held their own with a slight margin favoring the seconds. A hundred yards from the finish only a few feet separated the crews as the two coxswains called for the final spurts. The thirds finished about four lengths behind...