Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapidan camp went President Hoover for a short weekend. He found his son Herbert who is fighting off tuberculosis "doing very nicely." Mrs. Hoover developed a slight cold...
...also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
...above statistics show Army's slight offensive margin over Harvard in Saturday's game which was enough to give the cadets victory. They also show Army's dominance in the first quarter, Harvard's complete supremacy in the second and third periods, and then the cadets final period offensive comeback...
Army, always powerful and resourceful, with its usual band of former college players comes this year, just as it did last October, ruling a slight favorite. The Army comes without Cagle and Murrell, its outstanding stars of last year, but it comes under the direction of a new coach, Major Ralph Sasse, bringing with him the Warner system of offense, originated by Glenn Warner at Stanford University...
...Army was tied. The newspaper odds had favored Harvard during the preceding week but when the day actually came they favored Army. The thought that Harvard would actually beat Army was too optimistic. This season Harvard has again been the early favorite but by today the Army has a slight choice. But the Crimson never had a better chance down from his high place...