Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the taste of military manhandling still fresh on its palate, the University's ex-service contingent has been quick to continue the war-years habit of beefing at administrative irritants. Some of the best hard luck stories have centered about the minor inconveniences and alleged major short-comings in the conduct of the Hygiene Department. But the sideswipes have been scattered. Only this summer when concerned students began organized agitation did the question of the University's medical service-its efficiency and its expenses-assume significant proportions...
...also enjoyed one minor triumph over governmental red tape. A bronze bust of the President had been presented by Mexico's President Miguel Alemán to the University of Kansas City, where both received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price...
There was some minor rumbling against him, but there was no doubt that the National Committee, when it meets late this month, would ratify Harry Truman...
Germany's Chance. A minor street incident six years later helped convince Shirer that Germany still dreamed. Shirer, picking his way through ruined Berlin, saw two Russian soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along...
Although a Freshman team was not organized last year, the brothers Knight think a Yardling squad can be formed if there is sufficient interest. That means an opening for a '51 manager. Freshman numerals will be awarded, and, of course, the Varsity rates five minor H's for the top men, and a letter for the manager...