Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a world assembly of all peace-loving nations; a world council, dominated by the Big Four but giving some representation to small nations; and a world court. The Big Four would make the major decisions (i.e., dealing with aggressors); the world court and world assembly would settle minor international disputes (trade problems, customs...
Last week the Americans broke down one stubborn fortress, secured a minor port. Stiff-backed Colonel Andreas von Auloch, the "madman of Saint-Malo," finally surrendered. Begrimed (but with boots shining), proud of their stand (but reeling after a farewell bout with the bottle), the Germans gave up after eleven days of pounding. Before they marched out of their tunneled redoubt the Germans freed seven U.S. prisoners. The Americans had been treated well, had scarcely noticed the air bombardments in the four-story-deep granite fortress...
...minor men in WPB last week became the first casualties of this battle: chunky V. Lewis Bassie, 36, and short, thin Irving Kaplan, 43, WPB economists. Their job had been to prepare confidential reports of war-production progress for top WPB eyes. In their latest report, they made an audacious assertion: except for a few items, the Army has more than enougk materiel to fight the war. Samples: several years' supply of small arms; a year's supply of guns, fire-control equipment and ammunition; at least nine months' stockpile of ordnance equipment generally. When the Army...
This time there were no bomb bores with a shopworn story of a lucky miss. This time the robomb itself was the bore. Almost all other topics had gone out of casual conversation. Even last week's good war news was merely a minor point in the business of getting through another...
Newly re-organized and one of Harvard's active extra-curricular groups the Outing Club has already completed seven trips and is planning at least two more expeditions for each weekend during the rest of the team. With W. Lawrence Minor, Jr. of V-12, Henry U. Grunebaum '47, and Alan Balsam '48, heading it, the club now boasts 25 active members...