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Word: slight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worcester, May 27.--The Harvard golf team won its nineteenth consecutive match this afternoon, when it downed the Holy Cross golfers, 7 to 2. The Crimson has been undefeated during the past two seasons and it will enter the Yale meet a slight favorite to repeat its last year's victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golfers Win Again | 5/28/1925 | See Source »

...Bell's telephone of 1875; the electric pen or telescribe, and the mimeograph; the megaphone; an instantaneous vote-recording machine which Congress rejected because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought the number of U.S. patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wizard of Menlo | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...have equaled the time of the Navy boat on Lake Carnegie, but the fact that the Annapolis outfit was not pressed gives no accurate determination of power. Sufficient to say that the University will enter the race on Saturday potentially the equal of the Navy crew, and probably a slight favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO SHIFTS IN FIRST BOAT FOR NAVY RACE | 5/19/1925 | See Source »

...dizzy girders. He was a millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Miss Amy Lowell, sister of President Lowell, died at her home in Brookline at 5.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon from a slight shock due to internal disorder. She was 51 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISS AMY LOWELL'S DEATH STUNS WORLD OF LETTERS | 5/13/1925 | See Source »

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