Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more runs came across in the home half of the sixth while the seventh inning was a repeat performance of the fifth with a few minor changes to add variety. This time three walks, three hits, and two errors did the damage...
...poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...
...prewar Dutch election was usually a cut-&-dried affair; the Catholics voted for the Catholic party, the Protestants voted for one of the two big Protestant parties, minor groups shared scattered votes, and that was that...
Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin is a blueblood, a clubman, a bon ivant, friend of kings and minor potentates. He can write and draw with both hands and both feet simultaneously (after first re moving his shoes) and has occasionally done so in legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public...
...lava flow cannot be dammed, but in some cases it can be diverted by artificially created channels. Mauna Loa's last serious outbreak in 1935-and a minor one in 1942-was shunted away from Hilo by bombs from Army planes...