Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing to a team that is gambling on a pass to make a long gain when behind in a light game. The committee realized that it would be impossible to check these last minute passes without making the penalty too severe. The new rule was merely made to curtail slightly what we consider to be a slight tendency at present for the passing game to outbalance the running game. The penalty of five yards was the slightest curb that we could impose...
...Bedford, was elected captain of the wrestling team yesterday afternoon to succeed C. H. Bradford '26, captain of this year's team. Wood prepared at Milton Academy, where he twice won the school championship, and captained his Freshman team, which was defeated by Yale by the slight margin of 14-11, despite the fall gained by the 1927 leader. During the past two years, he has been wrestling in the 158-pound division and has been a member of the two teams which won New England Intercollegiate championships. He was injured this year and was unable to enter the Yale...
...according to the theory, if the energy of the glands is deflected from the manufacture of spermatozoa then there remains energy to produce hormones in magnificent quantity. In the male the gland can be blocked off and the escape of the spermatozoa prevented very easily-a slight incision, scarcely more than a scratch, into the conveniently accessible scrotum, a tying off of the two-foot long vas deferens of one or both of the testes, and the job is done. Thus reproduction potentiality is mechanically stopped in half or in full. Sexual continence, of course, gives approximately the same beneficial...
...obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
With such left-handed arguments as these, M. Briand championed the peaceful "spirit of Locarno" in words sufficiently warlike for slight mollification of the Poincaréists. Finally he delivered a peroration in which he quite bluntly demanded co-operation from everyone. As expected, the ensuing vote was little short of a triumph: 413 for; 71 against; and only an odd 100 abstentions...