Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exonian, the newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy. Although it has not fallen to the lot of the Exonian to win the CRIMSON award during the two years of the newspaper competition for preparatory schools, the separating margin between the Exonian and the winners has in each year been slight...
...fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
...steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise the reader, but whose identity, like the plot of detective plays, is not to be divulged by the reviewer...
Coach C.S. Heard '25, who has just recovered from a slight attack of grippe will put his men through a full length race also, if there is not a heavy wind in the Basin...
...University team is usually picked in the fall from the men who make the best showing in the tournaments of the preceding spring. Thus the winners of the present tournament, while they have but slight chance of making the first team this spring, may advance their standing on the squad during the season...