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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is some slight expense incurred for every performance which unless multiplied too often is negligible. The main question is that of time. When we consider that the Glee Club has three rehearsals and an average of one concert a week throughout the year, it will be evident that as the final exams approach, the members should not be taxed too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graceful Affirmative | 5/23/1928 | See Source »

...this audience is handicapped by having only two evenings in which thus to enjoy the Glee Club. This paucity of appearances is certainly not to be excused on the grounds of slight interest; if there is a substantial reason for limiting the number of concerts to two, it must be found in the difficulty of training the singers for more frequent meetings of the type. However, similarity of programs is not particularly an evil, when the membership of the audience changes to some extent each time, and when the programs are of such real merit as those Doctor Davison offers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM WIDENER'S STEPS | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

...requires much time for your magazine to reach this isolated corner of Morocco, hence it is but at this late date that I can inform you of a slight error in your number for February 27 which reached me but yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Local track authorities predict a close score, with Yale a slight favorites. Yale's strength lies in the pole vault with Carr and Sturdy competing. in the low hurdles with Kieselhorst, and in the sprints with Kieselhorst and Walker running. Hall should give Pratt stiff competition in the shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE BLUE CAMP | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

...three points. A prominent Boston sports writer, more ingenious in the perilous art of doping, given two columns of figures, one for the optimist, the other for the conservative. The first reads eighty points for Harvard, the second fifty-eight and a third. The chances of error here are slight: some-where within these limits, lies the actual victory, as well as the possibilities which tomorrow afternoon will draw hundreds of Crimson and Blue supporters to the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOPE SWEET | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

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