Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place on the Jap besieged island of Java early in 1942. Use of the flashback technique to bring out the history of Dr. Wassell's life serves only to confuse the spectator. In between shots of battles on Java appear sequences showing the deuter's earlier experiences as a minor Louts Pasteur in China...
Authorizing two minor sports credits for golf, Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, has officially launched Harvard's newest team. Negotiations have been completed with the Oakley Country Club for a special forty dollar membership to take effect immediately and to run through Labor...
...those who despair of achieving that end. . . . For years we have had men in Washington who were notoriously weak in certain branches of arithmetic-but who specialized in division. They have played up minor differences of opinion until the people of other countries might have thought that America was cleft...
...theory known as "equal temperament" permits the tuning of a keyboard instrument so that it can be played in any key with equal facility. It was the inspiration for Johann Sebastian Bach's famous collection of 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys: The Well-Tempered Clavichord...
...heroic genius whose fidelity to Norwegian folksong and his Norwegian wife is threatened by the wiles of an Italian countess named Louisa Giovanni. She represents the cosmopolitan musical culture of sophisticated Europe. Grieg, though tempted, sticks to Norway, and composes his greatest work, the Piano Concerto in A Minor. So ingratiating are the familiar, lyrical Grieg melodies in which this flimsy plot is dressed that last week three Hollywood studios were bidding for movie rights and Producer Lester was thinking of taking his show to Broadway...