Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile committee chairmen, worried by the press of work to be done, wrestled inconclusively with a welter of major & minor legislation, from service merger and rent control to a list of 25 proposed new holidays (among them: Grandmother's Day, Freedom Day, Shut-ins Day, American Indian Day). A new addition to Congress' agenda: the President's request to extend for a year export controls over 500 scarce commodities...
Required by the nature of its work to be as ambidextrous as a minor league switch-hitter, the Chemistry Department maintains an anomalous position that is unique throughout the college. Forced to meet the needs of both the concentrator preparing for graduate work and the liberal arts man filling a distribution requirement, the department must cater to both these interests in a plant already operating at full capacity. The result is satisfactory to neither faction...
...that requires a finely-adjusted schedule, the Chemistry Department is doing its best to handle all comers. Despite the hoterogeneous demands and varied abilities of its students, the department has achieved a standard that ranks it with the country's best and this reputation stones in part for its minor shortennilngs. But the significance of this degree does not entirely compensate for the overtime hours in the lab, and until the Department can achieve a more equitable balance between professional requirements and undergraduate limitations, the chemistry concentrator will continue a neglected...
Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Artur Rubinstein, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Chopin, never at his ease in large, rigid forms, played superbly by Rubinstein, always at his best in Chopin. Performance: excellent...
There was only one small, embarrassing problem: British movies, which have been pretty good lately. Three minor awards went to British films for scripting and special effects and a "special award" to Producer-Director-Actor Laurence Olivier for his masterly Henry...