Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if he believed in prohibition, the Robot answered "I don't know, when does it start?" Among other items of information accumulated in this human machine are the times of arrival and departure of all Boston-New York trains. The inventor even claims the ability to evoke after slight training a correct Harvard pose and accent, if desired...
...tuck game throughout. Harvard took a slight lead at the start but lost it soon after when Colestock, the Navy star, went on a scoring orgy and tallied 12 points inside of ten minutes. During this time Harvard scored only five points. The score at the end of the first half was 22 to 17 in favor of Navy...
Vice President Dawes was master of ceremonies. Senate Pages Milburn McCarty Jr. of Eastland, Tex., and John Gordon Logan, carried the two shiny mahogany boxes in which reposed the solemn electoral certificates. Page McCarty is a squint-eyed little boy with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...
Last week in Providence, R. I., and in the half-dozen towns surrounding, the whisper softly passed around. In smart houses it caused slight comment. But in little houses where shirt-sleeved fathers read the papers every night by the centre table, the whisper was tense, freighted with excitement. "Elphege Daignault will repent. The neighbors told...
Without changing the basic nature of the Union, there are three possibilities of its future. The first, its use as an all-Freshman club and commons, is too slight for consideration, since it is so definitely opposed to the policies of the Governing Board and the needs of the University. The second, the use of the Union as a commons for Freshmen while it continues as a University club, finds as much support as the last, the continuation of the Union on its present plan as a general club...