Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva,' writes a French author, one can, in less than two hours and at relatively slight expense, accomplish the tour of the world.' For this it is only necessary to be present at a session of the Assembly of Nations.' To anyone who has not been at Geneva during the last few years such a statement seems a gross exaggeration. It is none the less true. For Geneva is not what it was before the War. It is a great deal more. Prior to 1920 Geneva and vicinity were favorite haunts of American travellers. The beautiful lake, the clear, crisp...
Yale completed its first row over the course here today, and while the time of the Blue crew was not announced, it was reported as being fast. Remarkably favorable conditions prevailed when the Eli oarsmen started up stream tonight at 7 o'clock in their time spin. A slight following wind, together with some assistance from the tide helped the Yale boat on its four mile row, and the futility of comparisons is realized here more than ever by the varying conditions which greet each new time trial. A faster performance by Captain Wilson's crew today was expected...
...staring at the squat announcer in the blue suit, that he haa been bested, he knew also that he had been the cleverer of the two, that he had put up a gallant defense. He did not think that they would take his title away on so slight a margin. Neither did the 40,000 smoke-veiled phantoms. That is why they booed when the squat man raised his right hand, gave the title to Berlenbach...
...spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...
Whatever the complaints about Cambridge weather, it cannot be accused of monotony. A change from tropical, blazing heat to the usual coolness of a New England spring is no slight feat for a single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...