Word: minor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...port in the Western Hemisphere south and west of an imaginary fence set around the North Atlantic Ocean; and anywhere in the other world waters. The President may declare any region a combat area-which would automatically ban U. S. citizens, ships, planes from trespassing in that area. Minor provisions bar alien seamen from U. S. entry, mounted arms on U. S. merchant vessels, use of the U. S. flag by foreign ships. Penalties for major infractions: $50,000 fine, five years in jail or both; for minor $10,000 fine, two years in jail or both...
Three daughters had the late Robert W. Gibson, wealthy architect, designer of the New York Botanical Garden Museum. Lydia was a leftist. A painter, sculptress, contributor to the old (Communist) Masses and Liberator, she became in 1922 the wife of well-known Communist Leader Robert Minor. Already she had been banished from the Social Register. Poor dear Lydia was beyond the pale...
...utterance he loses the services of the best men. ... In my report on the events of 1938 I drew your Lordship's special attention to the far and unfortunate results of the Blomberg marriage.* I am more than ever convinced of the major disaster which that-in itself-minor incident involved, owing to the consequent elimination from Herr Hitler's entourage of the more moderate and independent of his advisers. . . . After February of last year Herr Hitler became more and more shut off from external influences and a law unto himself...
...with the swanky law firm of Strong and Cadwalader (now Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), tucked an oboe under his arm, and took a boat for Europe. There, hobnobbing with such hall-of-famers as the late Franz Liszt, the late Joseph Joachim Raff, the late Edward Macdowell, he made a minor name for himself as a talented U. S. composer...
Every U. S. football fan has heard of Alabama. Its teams have played in the Rose Bowl five times. That it had another potentially great team this season was no surprising news. But to most fans above the Mason-Dixon line, Tennessee has always been considered minor league -just hillbilly stuff. Last year, when the unheralded boys from the Smokies burned up the Southeastern Conference,* won all ten games on their schedule (rolling up 276 points) and then drubbed undefeated Oklahoma, Big Six champion, in the Orange Bowl, even boarding-school girls in New England became aware that Tennessee could...