Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's indorsement was unique in that this newspaper is published with expectations, however slight, of profit. It charges $15 per year for a subscription by mail, and accepts advertisements...
...Fascist salute whenever a band of cheering patriots rushed by carrying a Fascist flag. Dr. Leonard S. Rau, a physician of Lawrence, Long Island, was one of those who imprudently neglected to salute a Fascist banner in Rome. Since the doctor is 65, he was able to make but slight resistance when a Fascist youth knocked off his hat and another struck him with doubled fist upon the temple. Mrs. Rau, with great presence of mind, shrieked "Americano! We are Americanos! AMERICANO!!" Thus appraised of the nature of their prey, the Fascists let go of Dr. Rau, passed...
...preserved recently following a suggestion from Harvard Athletic authorities that the Harvard-Princeton football game be suspended for 1927 and 1928 the PRINCETONIAN was for the most part silent on the matter, but nevertheless dubious. It was generally felt that Princeton was big enough, sensible enough to overlook a slight lack of tact for the sake of keeping unimpaired an old and undeniably valuable athietic relationship between three great eastern universities...
...soldiers of the Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, now in control of Peking, notoriously follow his example of ruthless and inhuman cruelty upon slight provocation. Last week one of Chang's lieutenants demanded a "contribution" from a Chinese merchant resident in the suburbs of Peking. The merchant refused. The soldiers brought a cauldron of oil, built a fire beneath it, seized and stripped one of the merchant's daughters, boiled her to death...
Harvard's 133 to 60 total in points scored, the solid certain rise in Crimson stock, the anxious thumbing in city rooms of old records of Brickley Mahan Hardwick, Casey and Owen for adjectives to apply to the Crimson backfield, all those are the reasons for the slight odds on the Crimson this morning. But "What Price Roper and Slagle?" is the question on the lips of Harvard coaches. These two have done things on New Haven turf and in Philadelphia City Council meetings, which smack of the unexpected. Three weeks Princeton has had to perfect those weeks Princeton...