Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall be grateful if you will allow space in the columns of The Crimson for this attempt to clear up what I conceive to be a slight misunderstanding of our purposes. Yours sincerely, A. Ambrose Reeves, General Theological Seminary, New York City
...smoke in the presence of a lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...
Although the Crimson scored first in the basketball encounter at Hanover, and in the opening minutes had slight advantage over the Green, it was not held long, and as soon as the opponents had passed the Crimson score they took a commanding lead and held it through-out the rest of the game...
With these words he finished his toilette, and leaving the dressing room, asked with a slight smile. "Is Everybody Happy...
Burns and Lundell, Harvard sprinters entered in the dash, did not make the trip to New York on account of slight injuries...