Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blow was not destined to fall, for General Diaz, using the slight reserve force available to him, turned back the attack at the psychological moment, and within a week, had sent his enemies flooding north in the full tide of retreat...
...remaining articles, consisting of Mr. Trumbull's outline of the football season and Mr. Kane's remarks on undergraduate support of the football team, are timely and interesting. The editorials seem generally slight, but they are written with technical skill...
...number of his most reliable players went down to New Haven last Saturday to see the Tiger Bulldog contest, a substitute eleven faced Brown at Cambridge. Although the University came out of the struggle with the long end of a 9-7 score, it was only by a very slight margin that the team escaped defeat. Five times the Brounians threatened the Crimson goal-line and it was only the aggressive playing on the part of the second string forwards which prevented more than a single score from being made...
This afternoon the squads will go through a slight work-out over the Cambridge course as final preparation for the meets Stress this week has been laid on running over level ground and on vaulting the four-foot and the two two-foot hurdles which have been placed on Soldiers Field. There is a possibility that Captain Bemis will be unable...
...solution to the problem. Briefly, the author's idea is this: unless these young men are taught to use their leisure properly, they are dangerous to society. Educate them, then, for leisure. At present the elementary schools fail to do this. They educate, rather, for work. They make but slight attempt to impart to their students a love of art, literature, or music or a knowledge of science, philosophy or economics. The author urges, therefore, that many subjects hitherto known as "college subjects" be taught in the elementary schools. They need not be given in all their intricate complexity...