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Word: minor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that baflies every charity with a mailing list. Where experts consider a ten percent return on letters average, the Food Relief quota for commuters has necessarily been placed at close to seventy percent. Minor difficulties such as distaste for the gummy side of stamps, lack of ink, and the ever-present aversion to mailing a letter should not, deter any student or faculty member from giving to this vitally important program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Wheel Drive | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

...Kuomintang. 4. China's minor parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...winners of the competitions will receive awards at the end of the season: the Freshman heavy and 150-pound managers receiving major and minor numerals respectively, and the Varsity managers receiving major and minor letters respectively when they finish their seasons as head managers of Varsity heavy and 150-pound boats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Competition to Open Monday for All Crew Managerial Hopefuls | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

Italian masonry buildings, the wings of our planes and our G.I. helmets were adequate so that no one received more than a scratch from one of the minor missles...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgic, | Title: Mt. Etna Erupting? "Say, that reminds me," Says Crimeditor: "Why, 'way back when . . ." | 2/28/1947 | See Source »

...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: African Armada | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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