Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...narrow margin that we must be sure to overcome this year, and I only echo the sentiments of many graduates when I make this direct appeal to all undergraduates who can be possible candidates for the team to help in the work to come. Every one who has the slightest ability on the track, or who has the inclination to try, should present himself to the captain and Mr. Lathrop as a candidate for the team. With many good men of last year's team either ineligible or out of college we are in need of material this year...
...very gratifying to note the increase of friendly feeling that there has been between Harvard and Pennsylvania in the past few years, and it is also instructive to note that there is not the slightest hitch or misunderstanding between the managements of the two universities. This is due to the fact that both have acted in a perfectly open, frank manner towards the other. We wish that all intercollegiate athletic events could be as pleasantly arranged and carried out as was the Pennsylvania-Harvard game...
...Copeland spoke first of the difference between this age and the last in the art of reading and speaking. It was not until very recently, he said, that there was the slightest desire shown by the students to learn to read and to speak well. He accounted for this in part by the fact that men had so much less time to devote to reading now than in the past century, and in order to keep up with the times they let the grand old writers go, to spend their time in reading magazines and new novels. He spoke further...
...attempted in the slightest degree to evade this publicity. On the contrary, the crews seem to appreciate the general interest taken in their work, and tacitly invite the public to come and enjoy it. The London daily newspapers regularly print the hour at which the men will go out on the river, morning and afternoon, and in consequence the banks are covered with all kinds of interested spectators...
...Greek theatre. His wide experience in interpreting what his spade has just unearthed, has given him a wonderful power of piecing together bits of information which to the unexperienced would seem entirely unconnected. There is almost an intuition in the manner in which he follows up the slightest clue which his investigations furnish...