Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prohibition is defended on moral grounds, and to a certain degree these arguments carry weight. Distilled liquors are most harmful to the health and morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement...
...gratitude for its Transcript number, it may yet be said that all do not agree. There is, too, a certain difference in the task of editing a daily compared with that of publishing a fortnightly or monthly. And it may be noted that a bad joke is only a slight incident in one's mental life, but what one considers a bad editorial leaves a deep irritation. One good joke wipes out the memory of a thousand bad ones...
After a period of jockeying for position which was prolonged by the effects of a fair tide, the two crews were started by Coach Mather Abbott of Yale at about 5 o'clock. The Crimson oarsmen jumped into a slight lead at the start, and then settled down to a steady stroke that drew them rapidly ahead of their opponents. At three quarters of a mile the University class crew led by two lengths, and increased this advantage quickly until at the mile point it had two more lengths of open water to its advantage. Here Kent broke...
...thrower on the squad, injured his ankle and, as a result will probably be unable to complete against Yale at New Haven, Saturday. Inasmuch as several of the Yale runners are also out on account of poor physical condition, the meet will be close, with the University team a slight favorite...
...very start the 1921 oarsmen got away to a slight lead, but were passed in the next few strokes by the Junior shell. The latter crew, maintaining a high stroke, gained steadily on the Sophomores throughout the first mile, while the Senior eight, after a short brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint...