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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most even matchings of the afternoon, Joe Noble has been established a slight favorite over Eli Ted Reese at 147, while in the battle of captains, Bob Foster rates the edge over Jack Kohr at 167, despite the fact that Kohr gained a draw when the two met last year in the varsity's 21-8 win, its first in 22 years over the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: League Second Place At Stake for Crimson | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

There is a slight possibility that the varsity's Greg Stone can win the diving. He beat Yale's Doug Starkweather in the Easterns two years ago and may repeat...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Swimmers, Wrestlers to Encounter Tough Yale Teams as Season Ends | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

Yale rates a slight favorite over the Yardling wrestling squad in today's match. Both teams sport undefeated records, though the Crimson has been tied by Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yarding Teams Will Meet Bullpups; Hockey, Wrestling Evenly Matched | 3/8/1958 | See Source »

...vote for Frondizi. The only apparent reason was that Frondizi had been outspoken in criticism of the provisional government that booted Peron out in 1955. But Perón's move clearly changed the course of the campaign, in which the pro-government Balbin had been a slight favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Free Election | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock Quarry," for failing to hit the big scandal magazines with the "slight perversions" suburbia currently demands ("I am spitting my Miltown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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