Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both aggregations have dropped only one game and have taken the rest by comfortable margins; but, if comparative scores be resorted to, the Crimson matmen have a slight edge, for they trounced M.I.T. 29-5, while the Tuftonians sailed through with only a 20 1/2 to 9 1/2 win. Outstanding for Harvard is undefeated Captain Johnson, while Lindberg, a wrestling football man, has left, a long trail of falls behind him for the other squad. Inasmuch as the Crimson and Blue do not clash until Saturday. March 4, Coach Gallagher's men have not yet reached their top form...
...easy to point out the weakness of his point. In the first place, Mr. Read notwithstanding, six days should be ample time within which to file nomination papers for popular candidates. Secondly, there is small guarantee that more interest would attend the elections just because of a slight change in the nomination system. And, finally, even if interest did increase greatly, there must be a higher numerical requirement attached to the petition in order to keep the number of candidates within reason. Such new stringency would doubtless either evoke storms of protest or kill any new burst of interest...
Playing its first official game in nearly a month, the Crimson Varsity quintet will face a strong Navy five at 8.30 o'clock this evening in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Midshipmen are slight favorites, due to the fact that they have lost only one contest this season; they were nosed out by the fast University of Pennsylvania quintet...
...last week was the 1933 edition of the fat, red little Directory of Directors in the City of New York-handy who's who of corporate management. Though it included only directors with Manhattan addresses, 40,000 are listed in the new edition, a slight decrease from last year. Observed the publishers: "In their search for economy a number of corporations have reduced the size of their boards of directors...
...Zealand the immediate result was a "reflation boom" with stock and commodity prices rising last week in terms of Premier Forbes' fallen money. This paper rise made many a New Zealander happy but it was slight enough to leave New Zealand prices (in terms of gold) lower than they had been before...