Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tricky weather and minor difficulties had dogged the tails of the big ships, which were five at the start. At Tampico, the second stop after the take-off on Dec. 21 from San Antonio, Tex., the St. Louis broke an oil pump and burned out its motor. Another motor was fetched and installed, the other planes waiting. Leaving Guatemala City, the New York made a forced landing and lost its ground gear.* Taxiing out of Balboa harbor, off for Colombia, the San Antonio was snagged on a coral reef and the St. Louis had engine trouble. The cripples were mended...
...coast of Brazil the South Atlantic looked angry. The seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back to Fernando Noronha to spend the night. A rough landing necessitated minor repairs but next day Port Natal turned out to fete him, then Pernambuco further down the coast, then Rio de Janiero. Back over the ocean, in Italy, an excitable press and populace rejoiced that a Fascist, "a messenger of Italianity," had duplicated the feat first performed in 1926 by the Spaniard, Ramon...
...debut in a match to be held March 26 in Hemenway gymnasium. Although boxing as yet is not recognized as an organized sport in the University, the activity of the athletic authorities in attempting to secure this match points to the future organization of the fistic art as a minor sport. If boxing does become a minor sport it is expected that the change will be effected on a basis similar to that used at Yale...
...Springfield game is particularly important to the men on the Crimson squad, who are hoping to make their letters, since they will receive a minor sports H in place of a basketball H is Harvard wins both the Springfield game and the Yale game on Saturday. The ruling stipulates that for the player to receive a minor sports H in basketball the team must win three quarters of their games and the Yale game...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...