Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...switch in Governor Ely's attitude toward the Gill hearing, from boredom and apparent hostility to a kind of modified and active neutrality must have a very important effect on any assessment of the case. The switch was slight. As the outbursts of Gill's counsel yesterday indicate, it has not placed the whole investigation beyond all suspicion of unfairness. But it has meant this: that the Press, at last a trifle uncertain about the outcome of the affair and therefore about the consequences of its Roman holiday, has resolved to give the Superintendent at least the semblance of justice...
...paid little attention, the delegates applauded Professor Hudson, chatted volubly, slowly left the hall to the mercies of volunteer Radcliffe damsels who removed the fifty-four timid, gay little flags which had marked the national contingents. Delegates had given respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken if almost inaudible attack on Secretary Wallace, saying that the secretary...
...comments on the "Review's" criticism were written "with tongue in cheek," as Mr. Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
Cinderella Warner tripped gaily out of Harvard to pose for the Daily Record, a little paper in Boston, and to write of her escapades and escapes in the Harvard Union. Since then the subway rider wearily rocketing his way homeward, has been delighted by the slightly bovine features and Pepsodent smile of Little Kay peeping coyly at him from some twelve pictures. For the literate portion of their customers the Record has provided Kay's own simple story told in her own simple way; and it is hard to see how even the most hardened can help but feel...
...preliminary to the Varsity contest, the Harvard Freshmen, who also defeated Brown, and who won from the Jayvees Monday, meet the New Hampshire Freshman quintet, which is rated a slight favorite. Coach Samborski plans to start the same lineup that finished the Jayvee game Monday. HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Fletcher, r.f. r.f., Armstrong Merry, l.f. l.f., Joslin Morse, c. c., Targonski Ferriter, r.g. r.g., Demers Henderson, l.g. l.g., Bronstein