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...Tiger this year has won all four of its League games, but each time by the slimmest of margins--20-7 over Columbia; 7-0 over Penn; 26-20 over Cornell; and 14-7 over Brown. Lloyd Jordan, the Crimson coach, knows that the Tigers are good, but also not unbeatable...
...news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family. The Manchester Guardian learnedly explained that the act was passed by the slimmest of majorities in 1772 to control the marriages contracted by the libertine brothers of George III. "Sensible mortals," concluded the Guardian last week, "will doubtless feel that in the 20th century, such matters can safely be left to the head of the royal family without the restrictions of antique acts of Parliament...
...Hanover, N.H., by the slimmest of margins, the Dartmouth College ski team won its 20th victory in the 44-year-old history of its Winter Carnival. Dartmouth's skiers scored 560.9 points over Runner-Up New Hampshire (558.5), St. Lawrence (557.8) and Middlebury...
...members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full name-calling treatment: "Liar . . . stab in the back . . . tool of the employers. . . . Redbaiting ... no purpose save to capture control of the union for outsiders...
Crux of Chief Justice Gwyer's decision was that numbers of prisoners in India may have been arrested on the slimmest of evidence. He ruled: "There is no power to detain a person because the Government thinks that he may do something hereafter or because it thinks that he is a man likely to do it; there must be suspicions based on reasonable grounds that he is actually about...