Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain last season at Amherst, but this year the team is not as strong. Dartmouth beat them 3 to 1; the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan tied the Purple. Tufts lost, 4 to 2, and M.I.T., 5 to 2. On these comparative scores, Amherst holds only a slight edge over the Crimson...
...this year's registration came in areas which normally vote Republican. In the "southern tier," the ten counties lying along the Pennsylvania border, the gain was 18%, in Republican Queens it was 21%, in Nassau, biggest of the suburban counties, 52.7%. In important Democratic areas there were only slight gains, and even some losses...
...Newton were quickly picked up and released on bail to await trial for fraud. When police examined a Doodlebug, they found no plutonium, no delicate electronic mechanism. The Doodlebug was just a piece of war-surplus radio equipment that could be bought for $3.50. There had been one slight" change; flashlight batteries had been installed to light up the bulbs when the knobs were turned...
...side, McNiff has time to wear down his opponents. He can sit back and argue around the issue. What the Council can do is to force a decision by polling the resident students. If they are willing to suffer a slight inconvenience for the sake of the commuters, then McNiff's dogged reasoning will have a very hollow clank...
...Shrike is also exciting theatre. In the tense antiseptic air of a hospital wardroom, the horror creeps in as the man slowly realizes that it is impossible to prove his sanity. By subtly exaggerating all his slight abnormalities, the woman convinces the doctors that he is mentally unsound. And with their limited understanding, these psychiatrists add her reports to the man's attempted suicide to emerge with a neat and totally inaccurate diagnosis. From that point, they call anything he says the ravings of an insane individual...