Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...eliminate all possible chance for error, the tests were repeated for a year while the earth completed a trip around its orbit. This allowed for the slight possibility that motion of the solar system as a whole might somehow mask the effect of an ether wind. Still the masers showed no change of frequency...
Says Alpert: "There would seem to be very little reason why some slight recognition should not be given by our Government to the railroads that are struggling for survival here...
With Bob Bland back in the nets, and Dave Grannis developing a potent pokecheck technique to go with his normally strong stick-handling, the Crimson must be rated a slight favorite. But even victory can only put the varsity in a tie for second place in the Ivy League. Yale also has a 1-1 record and can be expected to defeat Cornell again, while undefeated Dartmouth visits undefeated Princeton...
...Harvard head coach is waging a campaign "to bring the foot back into football," he added yesterday, in advocating that goal posts be moved up from the rear of the end zone to the goal line. At the meeting the coaches defeated the measure by a slight plurality...
Most of their struggles are internal: soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time...