Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keeping the squash courts open during the evening would practically double their capacity, without necessitating any change in the existing plant. Some slight extra expense would be incurred. Another attendant might be found necessary; yet this expense is nothing in proportion to the benefits derived. It might even be defrayed by a charge on the use of the courts after seven o'clock, a charge which would be practically nominal...
...Some slight changes have been announced in the plans for the 1928 rally before the Holy Cross game Saturday. Contrary to the announcement on the posters, the class will assemble in the Smith Halls Quadrangle at 1.45 instead of 2. As a reminder of the time and in order to enable all the class to assemble promptly, a bugle call will be sounded in front of each of the Freshman Halls at 20 minutes before the hour...
...contending Tuchuns continued their war (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.) with great show and many loud noises, but neither side gained any appreciable advantages. In the north, slight progress was made by Tuchun Chang of Manchuria. In the south, the army of Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu drove its enemy two miles nearer Shanghai, their coveted goal; then rain stopped the engagement...
...There are five leading Presbyteries in our church, which in their order, according to their membership, are Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. The Presbytery of New York now numbers 38,497 members, which is a slight decrease over 1923, but the conservative Presbytery of Pittsburgh shows a like decrease in membership. There were fewer additions to the New York churches last year than in the preceding year, but the Presbytery of Philadelphia shows a similar decrease, as do those of Chicago and Los Angeles. The striking thing about these figures is that the Presbytery of New York...
Harper Brothers has issued a set of Arthur Guiterman's light verse in brick-red jackets; and I am reminded pleasantly, on a drab morning, of this slight, serious-minded humorist of quick movements and real wit. I suspect that every really funnyman must take himself seriously. Mr. Guiterman, of course, has not confined his writing purely to gay verses. He has had serious moments not without power. To be sure Your Puppy's Valentine is not deep; but there is a poem called The Pioneer which has much grace and beauty...