Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace," the world had heard, "is indivisible." Yet as the nations gathered this week at Paris for the first genera-conference to settle World War II, their agenda were made of chips and driblets and minor fractions of what might or might not be peace...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...
Attacked by thugs early yesterday morning on Cambridge Common, Francis P. Magoun '16, Professor of Comparative Literature, managed to make a get-away and suffered only minor injuries from the engagement...
...Hygiene Department will act as a willing clearing house, investigating and recommending the best medical care in the area. But the student must spend his own time searching down his physician or surgeon, and, most important of all, he must face the prospect of paying specialists' bills, no minor item, out of his own budget. Additional financial burdens forced on the bedridden undergraduate include a special fee for all services at Stillman beyond a certain short stay (which is covered by the $15 semester medical fee) and the expense of all medicinals used by the patient while on out-patient...
Since the end of the war CPA has been faced with the problem of domestic v. foreign demand for goods. While OPA lived, the problem was minor. Ceiling prices on exports left too small a margin of profit to suck any large amount of goods away from the domestic market. But with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit...