Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire in his eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...
...Crust of the earth. Variations in the earth's gravitational pull will distort the orbit slightly. Thus irregularities in the earth's crust and the slight bulge at the earth's equator can be determined more accurately...
...planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it shines only feebly by reflected sunlight. Even in the biggest telescopes it looks like a faint star; only its motion among the real stars and a slight fuzziness prove it to be a planet. Astronomers are not sure how big it is (probably midway between Mercury and Mars), but recently they have learned how fast it rotates on its axis...
...erratic offense looked slow and confused in the first half as the team's seasonal high scorer, Ike Canty, failed even to attempt a field goal. Later in the game, after a defensive change had slowed down Brown's attack, a Crimson quintet of substitutes managed to gain a slight edge over the Bruin reserves, but the 17 point deficit at the time could not be overcome...
Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestlers will be slight paper favorites against Columbia this afternoon when they return to the I.A.B. mats after more than two weeks of exam period inactivity. Pickett called the Lions "about the same kind of team," and would predict only a close match...