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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson players appear to hold a slight edge over the Athletic Association court squad in light of past performances and the outcome of tomorrow's matches will depend largely on the condition of the rival teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RACQUET TEAM FIGHTS FOR STATE TITLE | 1/8/1926 | See Source »

...bloc, but that is because he is not a dirt farmer, but something more like a landed aristocrat. He has no political glad hand, no oratorical or political tricks. As Clinton W. Gilbert describes him: "When he speaks, he talks.common sense in an easy, unemphatic way, with a slight touch of impatience in his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chairman Wadsworth | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

This schedule is subject to slight revision but in the main no changes are expected. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21 (V) Anthropology 13 Sever 5 Astronomy 7 Astron. Lab. Chemistry 6 Sever 17 Economics 8 Sever 35 Economics 9b Sever 5 Economics 10a Harvard 2 English 11a Emerson D English 14 Emerson D Fine Arts 9b Fogg Lect. Rm. French B Sever 18 French 17 Harvard 2 Geology 4 Mr. Danglas, A1, B3, C8, D9, E10 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Efflings, A2, C6, F13 Memorial Hall Mr. Jones, B5, C7, E12 Memorial Hall Mr. Lusk, F15 Memorial Hall Mr. Vanderbilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mid-Year Examination Schedule Is Announced Today | 12/18/1925 | See Source »

...assertion that Bebe Daniels, who plays the featured part, is of an old Spanish family has always seemed to us to evince a slight touch of quaintness on the part of her publicity agents. It really matters very little who she is or what she is, so long as she is willing to throw herself into character as vigorously as she has done in her last four pictures. We were thinking especially of "Sinners in Heaven", but it might be better not to think of that one, considering the prejudice that naturally arises in favor of swimming pool business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CRIMES--MORE OR LESS SPLENDID | 12/16/1925 | See Source »

These literary jousters thrust and parry with no slight blows. Of Katherine Mansfield, Walpose observed with only thinly veiling suavity: "If you think her short stories to be 'as devoid of genuine imaginative passion as so many bond circulars' then I tell you (and here there is a personal assertion naked and unashamed) you don't know what genuine imaginative passion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENCKEN VERSUS WALPOSE | 12/15/1925 | See Source »

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