Word: minor
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Under discussion was the classification of major and minor sports and the point awards for each. Tentatively, the winner of the first five sports listed will receive five points, others three, with the status of squash, swimming, and touch football in doubt...
...Federal Court, she told what she thought ailed her. In 1942, said Miss Burns, she had gone to work in Westinghouse's Bloomfield (N.J.) plant, and had been assigned to a laboratory job. Almost four years later, she learned she had been working on one of the minor processes in the development of the atomic bomb. The hot sheet metal she had been cutting into squares, she said, contained radioactive uranium...
Finally, Molotov made a whole string of minor concessions and a major one: he agreed "in principle" to the U.S. position that nations refusing to sign treaties would get no benefits from those treaties. This might work to deprive Russia's friend, Yugoslavia, of Italian reparations if Tito refused, as he had threatened, to sign the Italian treaty...
CAUSALGIA. This mysterious ailment, resulting from wounds near a nerve or blood vessel, causes excruciating, burning pains. In "major" causalgia, the patient is completely disabled, screams with pain at a touch or a sudden noise. In "minor" causalgia, the patient, months after a minor cut or infection has healed, may suffer severe pains without visible cause. Nerve block with novocaine or alcohol gives quick relief...
Died. John A. Hillerich, 80, who in 1884 made the first "Louisville Slugger" baseball bat, later founded the famed Hillerich & Bradsby Co. which manufactures nearly all bats for the major and minor leagues (over 2,000,000 a year), for half a century has supplied baseball's great with tailor-made weapons; in Chicago...