Word: minor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...States, was submitted to arbitration, though finally settled by treaty. Such delay enables the jingoes to seize upon disputes, harmless in themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...
...inherited a fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...
...lecture will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Catholic Club. Rev. Father Searle is a well-known astronomer and has held many important places under the government and in different colleges, being at one time first assistant in the Harvard Observatory. In 1858 he discovered the minor planet (55) Pandora. He is now a regular contributor to Dr. Gould's Astronomical Journal and a Director of the Washington Catholic College Observatory at Washington...
Fantasie B flat minor, op. 11, Arthur Whiting...
...Story of an Escape-Letters from Harpoot, Asia Minor...