Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Team expenses in major sports showed a slight average drop. Slight rises in the expenses of University crew and hockey were more than offset by a decrease of nearly $20,000 in the amount spent on baseball, football, and track
...strong Tech wrestling team is conceded a slight edge over the University grapplers when the two groups of matmen clash in the New Indoor Athletic Building tonight at 8 'clock. The rival Freshman teams will go on the mat at 7 o'clock and the Crimson first year men are expected to put on a good exhibition. It will be the initial match of the season for both Harvard teams...
...past two weeks thousands of bare-footed Mexican Indians have made pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadaloupe. This may seem of slight interest to those whose heritage is Protestant and whose interests are commercial, but in the village just outside the City of Mexico a pageant is being played in the spirit and with the trappings of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. If one would understand the power and the immense spiritual fascination of this great tradition then turn and follow this medieval pilgrimage to the gaudy and artificial church of Guadaloupe...
...four years in succession there has been some error in connection with the Senior class elections. This year's mistake was slight and will cause no harm; it will merely result in confusion. The errors in most cases were caused by the fact that there is no centralizing direction of the elections. The matter is handled every year by a different group of men; there is no one to guide each new nominating committee...
...open market, strictly prohibited by early communistic practice, is now being tolerated, and thus a wider list of commodities is available to the Russians. Likewise the handicraft workers, put out of business by the Socialists in 1928, are again allowed to contribute to the market. "This indicates a slight concession to private initiative," Professor Hopper explained. "The general trend is to increased production of consumer's goods, rather than to manufacture for the state...