Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physical and intellectual benefits would result from fewer laboratory hours. This reduction might be effected by a slight decrease of the laboratory of each course, by slightly less ambitious objectives for the ground to be covered by experiments. It might more feasibly be effected by a reduction in the number of laboratory courses required of the Chemistry concentrator, particularly of the honors man, who must now take eight courses in Chemistry or related fields, most of which require long laboratory hours. The very slight lowering in the standards of the field would be an investment yielding more than equivalent returns...
...catching up on my loafing at the Met when along comes this flicker which one and all are referring to as "A Slight Case of Murder." I open up my peepers and wonder whether I will feel blow-hot-blow-cold about this one like I am about its co-feature which I have just waded through--an operatic affair dubbed "Romance in the Dark," which has somewhat to do with two Johns called Boles and Barrymore and a Gladys whose last handle is Swarthout. I make a note that I will give that one the bird in my review...
...gathered from University officials that when George R. Sheldon died almost twenty years ago, Harvard was told that it stood a slight chance of receiving anything from the will, since the estate was inextricably tied up with Mr. Sheldon's family. Thus the University has lost nothing by Whitney's alleged theft...
...last year, saying, 'How about donating your service to the Brooks House to put out the first publication of its kind in the Law School? He had added that some of the members, if appointed chairman following him, "might make some money," but that the chances of success looked slight for the first year...
...April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions...