Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...students in the class, 489, or 43.4 per cent, achieved Dean's List standing. This figure represents a slight increase over the previous record of 42.6 per cent that was attained by the Class of 1960. The statistics for the Classes of 1961 and 1962 were 35.3 per cent and 42.1 per cent respectively...
...Game symbolizes Harvard-Yale competition, a competition carried on, however, more on the academic than the athletic level. The competition is all the greater, perhaps, since differences between the two institutions are relatively slight...
...classmate (Harvard-1906), Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, at the latter's seminar on the American Executive. He impressed the students there as the true diplomat--distinguished white hair, pince-nez, well-filled vest, and a distinct, erudite speech with a slight European accent...
...South, Nixon showed strength along the border, holding slight leads in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Democrats claimed North Carolina and South Carolina-two states that Nixon had been counting in his column-and signs were mounting that Southern Negroes, who had been strong for Ike, were swinging back to the Democrats (in Durham, N.C., one bellwether Negro precinct that went 66% for Ike in 1956 went 66% for Kennedy...
...unruffled and well-organized performance, he was unbeaten all night. The familiar CBS supporting crew-Eric Sevareid, Douglas Edwards, Charles Collingwood, et al., were smooth, quick and, in the case of Nancy Hanschman, pretty. Conspicuously missing: CBS Oracle Edward R. Murrow bedded down with pneumonia, possibly complicated by a slight case of disgruntlement over the you-be-Brinkley treatment he received during the conventions...