Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty-eight men this fall received treatment designed to prevent the common colds and respiratory infections. Replies to a questionnaire from 38 of these indicated that five had been rewarded by complete freedom from catarrhal trouble, ten saw marked benefit, ten moderate benefit, seven slight benefit, five no benefit, while two cases were doubtful...
Princeton Has Slight Edge...
...matter of comparative scores, the Nassau team has a slight edge having beaten Virginia, 5 to 1 victor over Harvard, by 8 to 1. Both teams have lost to Maryland...
...taken Dunster and Lowell houses as criteria on which to fix the basic charge. These two houses had the pick of the University at their disposal and were filled, in the main, with men well above the economic average of Harvard College. Rather than make the average high a slight risk should have been taken. The authorities themselves have admitted that there is a risk even now. They have set aside $70,000 to cover it. This is also unfair. Why should the students be made to pay for being the subject of an educational experiment? Raising the rents...
...popular mind, Queen Helen has stood for years as one of the few untainted factors in Rumanian public life. Her sickroom vigil loomed momentarily bigger than the election. With profound disquiet the nation learned that she was running a slight temperature, due probably to the effects of inoculation and exhaustion. Crown Prince Mihai's temperature went down to 99.7 He was better. Her Majesty appeared to repose confidence in only one other human being, an elderly English nannie who shared her vigil...