Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot hope to escape detection under the present conditions. If, on the other hand, any student has not been careful of his diet or has not slept sufficiently, the fact is sure to become appareat the minute he finds himself rebuffed by any of the minor defects of the library...
...student whose time, taste, or abilities do not allow him to enter into either the major sports or the majority of minor sports has found in squash racquets a game exactly adapted to his needs. That participation therein should be hampered by inadequate facilities is a new condition, an unfortunate by-product of new popularity...
...plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
Italy-Dalmatia. Not only were Naples and Sicily snowmantled, not only did Vesuvius and Mount Etna spurt red ashes into a white storm; but the cold grew so intense in Dalmatia-across the Adriatic Sea from Italy-that the surface of a minor mountain range contracted, causing severe landslides near Spalato...
Balkans & Near East. From Constantinople came news of "furious gales" over the Black Sea and record low temperatures in Asia Minor. Balkan temperatures sank to four below zero in Belgrade and; even lower in other parts of Jugoslavia. "Tall" but circumstantially repeated; was a story of how the dead, frozen bodies of 17 Jugoslavian soldiers were discovered "clutching their rifles and in perfect marching order . . . half buried in and supported by the snow...