Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season, and if the two teams complete the season with identical records, the national championship will be determined by comparative scores against mutual opponents. Right now the comparative scores are almost even, but Navy's 8-1 trouncing of Princeton at Annapolis gives the Middies a slight edge...
Attempts to ease the pressures on Harvard Law School students have resulted in a slight increase in honorary society membership and the institution of a reading period for first year law students...
...covered by the orchestra. Penelope Ann Colwell and Cynthia Weinrich, who sang the soprano-alto duet in "Ihr Menschen," were also quite good, although Miss Weinrich, who sang the alto recitative immediately preceding the duet, lacked some of the clarity and lightness of the other soloists, and had some slight pitch difficulties...
...York state legislators were confronted with a blue-and-white 1,039-page volume that could best be described as imposing. It imposed on New York taxpayers a 1967 budget of nearly $4.7 billion, biggest ever proposed for any state in the Union. The same tableau, with only slight variations, was repeated in statehouses across the country. For if January is the season of inauguration euphoria and soaring phrases, February is the time of budgetary reality and boring figures...
...Buddhist sect. Competing for 32 seats, Komeito's candidates were young and energetic, and observers gave them a good chance to win at least 27 of their contests. The election-eve guess was that Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party would be returned to power but could take slight losses from their high of 294 seats in the last legislature...