Word: slights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wings & Rudders. Cayley knew fairly well why wings work. To get proper stability, he explained, they should be set at a slight angle, the "dihedral" of a modern airplane. To keep them headed properly into the wind, he said, they needed vertical and horizontal "rudders"-a reasonable description of a modern plane's tail assembly...
...from this pollution that all the apparent evils in the system stem. To be objective, businessmen must be free. And to be free, business must be daring, cutthroat, and laissez-faire. As far as Miss Rand is concerned, any from of government control, no matter how slight, is too much...
Yale will be a slight favorite, but this will be the best chance the varsity has had to beat the Bulldogs in four years. The Crimson last won in 1957, and after that Yale began a 29-victory streak which just ended last Saturday against undefeated Princeton, 5-2. The Tigers beat the Crimson earlier this spring in a 7-0 whitewashing...
...Tigers, with almost everyone returning from last year's top-notch team, are considered a slight favorite in tomorrow's contest. But Crimson hopes are justifiably high...
...doubles, which may well decide the match, the unbeaten Crimson team of Bowditch and Sullivan will face Nabers and Baldwin. Comparative scores against Army, when Bowditch and Sullivan won in straight sets while the Princeton pair dropped a set, make the Crimson team a slight favorite...