Search Details

Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Last Tuesday Yale downed the Tigers, 6 to 3, in an actually close match, giving Yale a slight theoretical edge today. But Coach Jack Barnaby claims that the outcome won't be certain until after the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Squad to Play Yale Today; Blue Aims at Title | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...Relaxing Part. At 33, Koerner is a neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painted Stones | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Attenshun! In Chicago, Dr. Charles W. Goff, member of the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, had a cheering word for stoop-shouldered men: a slight slouch and protruding rump, he said, is healthy, conserves energy, and keeps the sloucher alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...significant downward trend in prices has been noticed or is foreseen by seven Square merchants questioned by the CRIMSON yesterday. While slight price drops have occurred in furniture, cotton goods, and certain foods, the merchants indicated that hikes in the cost of woollens and meat are a distinct possibility this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Merchants See No Price Drop | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Harvard will he a slight favorite, not because the scoreboard has made it work especially hard in practice, but because it is more experienced than the five sophomores and three juniors who have compiled a one and four win-loss record for Dartmouth...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Engage Dartmouth Here | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next