Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student for all they can get and to sell their shoddy goods at the highest price the traffic will bear. For those of us who have given up a great deal in order to come to Harvard, such a coldly indifferent act on the part of the University provides slight basis for any affectionate regard toward it, now or in the future . . . Name withheld by request...
...Block. Titular principal of Coca-Cola's vast educational institution is ex-Democratic Boss James A. Farley, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. But the boss of the Export Corp. is its president, slight, dapper James Curtis, who has spent nearly 27 of his 48 years with the company and whose gentle New Orleans drawl makes "Coca-Cola" sound like a whispered caress...
Tennis coach Jack Barnaby called his shots when he named the varsity a slight underdog in a tough battle with Dartmouth Saturday. On their courts, the Green won, 5 to 4, with all of their wins coming from the first five singles...
Tech jacked its stroke to 40 as against the Crimson's 37 and grabbed a slight lead which it never lost. Harvard was gaining on M.I.T. in the very last stages of the sprint but didn't go fast enough, and the Engineers succeeded in ending a long period of frustration...
...forty minutes the varsity lacrosse team played a favored Dartmouth ten an even game Saturday, but a slight letdown in the last ten minutes was just enough to enable the Indians to snap an 8 to 8 tie and win their tenth consecutive victory over Harvard, 11 to 8. The game was played on the Business School Field before several hundred fans, the largest crowd of the season...