Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This letter is to correct a slight error of the last two issues of TIME which, as an interested reader and subscriber, it occurs to me you would like to set straight. You in each issue refer to the football team of the University of California as the "Golden Whales." Any team from this, my alma mater, is known as the ''Bears," less frequently as the "Golden Bears." The name comes from the fact that the Grizzly Bear is our State animal, so to speak, being a chief feature of our coat of arms and the Great Seal...
...University game, comparative scores give the Blue a very slight advantage. Pennsylvania, which won from the Crimson 5-0, defeated Yale 5-1. Princeton scored a 3-0 victory over Harvard and a 2-1 victory over Yale...
Last year Yale entered the game a slight favorite, and scored four goals in the opening period...
...honors of Groups I or II, or even Ed; most are content with enough C's to quality; many there are who brag aloud of their consistent; achievements in bluffing, or of sleeping or card-playing through class hours. The chance for contact between student and instructor is so slight that any communication between them is of a cold, telegraphic variety. When a student does take the trouble to try to know his instructor better, he is generally regarded as a "sucker...
...astounding rate. It had no engine, this ship; it was innocent of masts, sails, rigging; its crew was so small as to be negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight, to the wind of their twirling, the ship moved through water. It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner. Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas...