Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three races Navy has taken a slight jump at the start and increased its lead slowly. The boat gets plenty of run, and the crew settles well. The Varsity was timed in 8:54, 6 for one and three-quarter miles under almost ideal conditions against Cornell, while in the Columbia races two weeks before the time for a mile and a half was 9:07 in quite a strong head wind. Against Princeton and Syracuse the time for a mile and three-quarters...
...article that my "strong right arm" was scorned. I do not care, nor would I mention it but for the fact that it conveys an erroneous impression of the game. Actually the difference in the size of my left and right arm is so slight as to be scarcely noticeable. Therefore it would seem that the casual player would run little danger of losing his muscular symmetry in the pursuit of tennis...
...Fred Perry retired from amateur tennis, the outcome of this year's Davis Cup Tournament, of which the interzone final starts at Wimbledon July 17, followed by the challenge round July 24, is considered a toss-up between England, Australia, Germany and the U. S. Australia is a slight favorite. Last week, in five other Davis Cup matches scattered all over the world, the tournament got off to a flying start. Results...
Generally favored today, Navy will have tough opponent in Cornell, which did several remarkably fast time trials on Lake Ithaca last week. There was a slight shake-up in the big Red beat at the start of the week which has resulted in ironing out a slight check previously noticeable...
...Jamaica, B. W. I. "But I didn't expect anything like this." In Omaha, scene of lynching and riot in 1919, newshawks called a dozen Presbyterians at random, found ' that all but one, a Southerner, approved of the election of John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built up an interdenominational choir which...