Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper, it looks as though Yale must be conceded a slight edge. But Harvard-Yale games can't be figured on paper. Pre-game statisticians could have hardly predicted the Yale 3-0 triumph over Barry Wood's 1931 team, a team that had downed Army and Holy Cross to stave off defeat until Albie Booth kicked away an unblemished record in the last quarter. And on the other side of the fence, there is the record of Harvard's last Yale and major victory in 1933 when Fergie Locke ran through the entire Eli team for a score...
...Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure...
...Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes...
Entering the Bowl a slight underdog, the Freshman football team will encounter a defensively strong Yale eleven in New Haven this afternoon at 2 o'clock...
...better. As for extra-curricular activity, they average higher than "the typical Harvard student", but not as conspicuously as might be expected. A further statistical break-down shows two men with no extra-curricular affiliation whatsover, one in Group 1 and the other in 111, with a slight tendency on the part of Group 11 men to engage in more outside interests...