Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews are almost equally powerful. Yale's advantage in experience--six Elis have raced the four gruelling miles as opposed to four Harvard sweep-swingers, and Laughlin has rowed two winning races while Watts has never set the pace in a four-mile contest--gives the Blue whatever slight pre-race odds there...
Tomorrow at 10 o'clock the Freshman crews will meet in a two-mile upstream clash. Yale is not tremendously powerful, having lost to Princeton, and the Crimson 1930 boat is a slight favorite. Captain Willard's boat, however, has a way of looking pretty in practice and not so fast under fire. In its one race it beat M. I. T. and Pennsylvania, but not by the margin which the difference in the appearance of the crews seemed to warrant...
...paddle of the day and Coach E. J. Brown '96 permitted an early return to quarters, after taking his charges over a choppy upstream course for about four miles. Coach H. H. Haines did the same with the 1930 oarsmen, finding the course too rough for more than a slight workout...
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho found that his sonorous voice had been reduced to a whisper, after an operation removing his tonsils, a fortnight ago. Nearly recovered, he talked to newsgatherers in Washington, D. C., last week with slight huskiness...
...taxicab spokesman replied that 17,000 was only 2% of the total vehicle registration in New York City, that New Yorkers want and need cabs at all hours. The Times, without warning, waxed humorous, and said: "Mr. McAdoo may be pardoned the slight hyperbole. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the average load of a taxicab in these parts is .83 of a passenger. Private automobiles offend to a somewhat less degree, averaging 1.7 passengers and just a trace of dog -generally...