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Word: slightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Robertson's experience tied a desperate game with Borsodi at the second table after 60 moves. After an exchange of queens Saron won a game of 49 moves from Captain Tager of Yale. A slight misstep coast Southard an exciting end-game of 61 moves against Ryder. resulting in the only defeat for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DEFEATS YALE TO GAIN CHESS TITLE | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Much of Copey's hold over his audience comes from his distinct personality. His gestures, slight inflections, and side comments, which are all a part of this personality, give his reading its individual stamp. The microphone cannot pick up these essential elements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPEY ON THE AIR | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

Reasons for entering the house are given as follows: six men were convalescents from Stillman Infirmary, eight were suffering from depression, 17 from exhaustion, two from homesickness, two from malnutrition, four from nervous breakdown and two from slight illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report on Harvard Hostess House Officially Made Known For First Time--Has Been in Operation Almost Three Years | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

...with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-American | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Last week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lonely & Great | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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