Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week it was questionable whether a penalty would be assessed since some of the excess may be chargeable to changes in Navy specifications. Said Rear Admiral William A. Moffett: "The Akron has been splendidly constructed, better than any dirigible within our knowledge. The slight excess in her weight ... is a direct conversion into increased safety and military factors...
...Wimbledon gallery looked forward to an all-American final, like last year's when Tilden beat Wilmer Allison, like the finals in 1923 when California's little William Johnston defeated Frank Hunter. WTood, who divides his time between New York and California, justified comparison with Johnston. Slight, delicate, with big forearms and incongruous stamina, he plays a heady game, often loses a set or two while experimenting with his oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing...
...highball glass, wearing the sly expression which comes partly from the formation of his face, with its sloping forehead and weak chin, partly from the way his eyelid droops over his blind left eye. Out on the course, the man who seemed likely to beat him-Jose Jurado, a slight wiry professional from the Argentine-was playing his last round. Armour had finished with a score of 296, four strokes less than critics had estimated would be necessary to win the tournament. Jurado had started his last round with 36 for the first nine and needed only to play...
...evidence of changing opinions on Prohibition in these ten years, it is interesting to note that in 1921 the question arose of "existing Prohibition" and "enforced Prohibition." A slight majority in that year voted approval of "enforced Prohibition." Today without distinction a vote of eight to one condemned the noble experiment. This change we do not ascribe to sophistication, but to the results of the ten year's experiment. New York Evening Post...
House athletics on a decidedly informal basis can be successful; the informal rugby team bears witness to that. But the slightest insinuation of House patriotism must cause a potential candidate the slight reflection that he may as well represent the University. The struggle next year between the Houses and the lightwight football team will be interesting not only for itself; it will be an earnest of future Harvard athletics, and should decide, for this college generation at least, how important a stimulus the major and minor sports awards really...