Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience may be the best teacher, but a slight Brown sophomore will be out to demonstrate that he has gained an intensified football education when the Bruins meet the varsity this afternoon...
...Bruins lost to Williams 1 to 0 and to Dartmouth 4 to 0. The Crimson topped Williams 2 to 1, and lost to Dartmouth only 2 to 0. So on these comparative scores, Brown rates slight underdog role for today's contest...
...allowed clubs which requested seats together to buy them in advance. "I'm not trying to conceal anything," Lunden said last night after the facts were revealed. "A few clubs asked for this accommodation at the beginning of the year, and I gave it. I only considered it as slight generosity...
Rowing three-quarters of a mile down-stream into a slight headwind, Howard Cushing stroked his eight-oared crew to the championship in the varsity's annual "Hollow Log Regatta." Bliss', Lincoln's and Walcott's boats followed...
...never to be used if a nicer word can be found. Thus, a whole new vocabulary has evolved. In the new jargon, a recession can be a "rolling readjustment," a "correction," a "slippage," an "easing," a "mild dip," a "downswing," a "normal adjustment," a "leveling off," a "slight downturn," a "lull," a "return to normalcy" or a "thingumajig." These euphemisms, of course, also defy definition. What, for instance, is a "return to normalcy," when for decades no one has known what economic normalcy...