Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both teams went onto the ice with a 7 to 0 record. Experience, coaching, and the particular efforts of first line center Doug Manchester gave the Yardlings a slight edge throughout the game...
...delighted to read your Dec. 24 article on Johns Hopkins' Robert Williams Wood. It gives me the opportunity to air a slight but persistent gripe concerning, of all things, the current Ethyl gasoline advertisements carried by some pretty estimable magazines: "There's a big difference between holly and a polly," etc. This is a direct steal from Professor Wood's charming (and far cleverer) . . . The Antelope-The Cantelope...
...weather broke just in time to allow freshmen and earnest upperclassmen to return yesterday for the abbreviated ten-day reading period. Any hopes for a repetition of last February's blizzard that served as an excuse for late registration vanished with the snow. The weather bureau reported only "slight snow flurries" in the Boston and Providence areas...
...prose and poetry (the first, Verses and Sonnets, was published in 1895) only two or three have been bestsellers. Such books as The Path to Rome, Richelieu, Marie Antoinette, and Cautionary Verses still sell well enough for Belloc to be able to drink good French wine. But the slight look of shabbiness about his 15th Century Sussex house, King's Land, shows the slimness of the owner's purse. The furnishings of the old house have been neither changed nor moved since the death of Belloc's wife in 1914. His children and grandchildren (one of whom...
...seems that the University promised all donors of $1,000 to the Lamont endowment fund that their nameplates would be placed in 50 books for posterity. The library made a slight error, however, when it put Morss' name in a volume that had been in its possession for some 15 years...