Word: minor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, Dictator Mussolini could get at best only minor satisfactions last week from his Spanish allies. The gains of the "Chamberlain Drive" in the north were balanced by losses due to the "Anti-Chamberlain" offensive in the south...
What took place on the Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
None of them, however, affords certain relief, and the cause & cure of seasickness remain one of medicine's minor mysteries...
...prefer," says Sassoon, at 52, "to remember my own gladness and good luck, and to forget, whenever I can, those moods and minor events which made me low-spirited and unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...
After a hearing before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation early yesterday, the strikers agreed to compromise on a 7 percent instead of a ten percent wage increase, and after ten hours of intermittent negotiations both sides by one o'clock this morning had reduced minor points in dispute to the question of termination...