Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department whose concentrators form a minor part of undergraduate course enrollment and which, nevertheless, must organize its courses so that they are specifically related to even more complex study, the Mathematics Department is unique, It must satisfy mainly science concentrators for whom certain basis courses are mandatory, in addition to following the accepted University policy of being a fertile research center. The problem here involves reconciling the desire for advanced study by its staff members with the desire for grounding in fundamentals by its students...
Except for two Rembrandts, the paintings at the National Gallery were mostly minor masterpieces by such Dutch genre and landscape painters as Steen, Aver-camp and Van der Neer. They added up to $1,000,000 worth of intimate history from a flat, fat land. The loan show was starting a one-year tour of the 114 U.S. museums which had supplied men for the Army's fine arts section. It had been selected by Art Professor Alphons Voren-kamp of Smith College (who helped identify many of the paintings when he was a wartime lieutenant colonel...
...cinema critic who can also lay claim to being a first-class moviemaker is a blue-eyed, Milquetoast-mustached Scot named John Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada...
Anthologist Bretall's judicious excerpting from 17 of Kierkegaard's major & minor works makes a 481-page compendium that is also almost a biography. For Sören Kierkegaard lived most intensely and dramatically in his thoughts...
Struck by a black sedan which dragged him 20 feet before coming to a stop in front of the municipal fire house at Cambridge Street and Broadway, Robert K. Leavitt '50 of Stoughton Hall suetained minor head and leg injuries yesterday evening...