Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Tel Aviv there were a few minor attacks during the week. But on Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
...able to shoot them full of holes (or otherwise dispose of them) with carefree recklessness. In addition to the hard-riding, hard-loving stars, such well-known players as Herbert Marshall, Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Charles Bickford and Sidney Blackmer appear briefly in minor roles-and are seen no more...
...deplore the possibility that out of minor subsidies to parochial schools will develop control over them. If the state has the power of control after subsidy, it has the power of control before subsidy. It is obvious that without subsidy that State rightly exercises considerable control over parochial, as over all education, public and private. Without contributing a penny, New York State's Board of Regents controls the federal government. New Jersey taxpayers, contrary to the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON editorial, are not being exploited by a law permitting school buses to pick up parochial school children, so long...
Thursday--Music Club Concert at Kirkland House, 7 o'clock. All Mozart program; including two quartets for piano and strings; Violin Sonata in E minor; Piano sonata in F. Douglas Allanbrook, piano; Margaret, Tobert, violin; Caroline Manning, viola; Peter Gram Swing, cello...
...safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs, knowing the right cafes in which to find the politician who must be interviewed at once...