Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attained the terrific speed of 22.32 knots a record for battleships in the United States Navy. Invading Soldiers Field, 350 men strong, the battalion quickly prepared for the exercises which served the double purpose of perfecting it in the open order of drill of which it had but a slight taste recently in Guantanamo and of acquainting Naval Science students in the University with a first hand knowledge of the tactics and manocuvres of the landing force of a battleship. Intantry companies, an artillery company and a machine platoon quickly took their places awaiting the signal for firing...
...Sacco-Vanzetti, case very obviously has become, will pass from the boards without first being thoroughly drained of all apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians will take the affair some-what to heart and that, consequently, some slight attempt will be made to mend both the ways of court procedure and political preferment. Doubtless, too, it will occur to some analyst that the case of Judge Thayer, laboring for years under the siress of one single controversy, and likewise the case of Madeiros, seeking to make a confession which would...
...Berlin, then it is pleasantly enervating to be showered with fulsome praise. Life, after all, is worth living and one can arise in the morning, or whenever one is accustomed to arise, with the feeling that there is something left--not much, but something. And if there is a slight miscalculation on the part of Princeton--no harm at all is done, for, as the Gilbert and Sullivan gendarmes sing, "to us it's evident, that your intentions are well meant." Like Latin nouns there are three classes of colleges: Smith and Vassar, the senior's first two choices...
...mention of the name, Paul Valery. This man has been compared to Baudelaire, to Pascal, even, if I remember rightly, to Plato. Such raptuous enthusiasm, issuing from eminent and sober critics, arouses in one the intense desire to examine Valery himself in the hope that there may be a slight bit of justification for this holiday from professional reserve...
Captain McCall, who has been suffering from a slight injury, will probably be able to run. He is expected to face the starter in the 440 yard run with Home and Swope, the speedy Green quarter miler. The Dartmouth aggregation is stronger this season than last and counts on victories in the hurdles, high jump 880 yard run, and the javelin. Wells, holder of the indoor intercollegiate hurdling championship, is expected to lead the timber toppers in both the high and low hurdling events. Maynard is conceded the advantage in the high jump, while Coach Hillman expects Smith to break...