Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winners in this competition were Bill Thorn and Mac Stevens, with the slight possibility of Larry Krieger being taken along as an alternate. It has been decided pretty definitely that Walt Muther, who would be the Crimson alternate on the squad, will not go along so Krieger's chances or going are rather slim...
...total series, however, Harvard and Yale hold a slight edge, with seven victories to the Britishers' six. The longest string of wins in the series was scored by the Harvard and Yales when they won three straight...
...spring. It was still spring late in the afternoon after the sunlight grew even paler and a slightly ribald wind swung in from the sea. The waves piled in on the tide, foamy against the rocks. She walked over the gray-green downs to the bluff. One by one the lobster men putted in toward the harbor in a single snaky line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through...
...supper will be served from 11:30 to 1 o'clock, with plenty of Coca Cola and other beverages available at all times. The Committee feels that though food is abundant, its appeal is slight beside that of Ellington's music...
...there is any speck that could mar the efficient working out of these improvements, it is in that slight word "flexibility" which is not seldom used to cover a multitude of sins and open a fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become...