Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which usually approaches Congress with the dread of a stumblebum fighter who knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity...
...When a Finnish professor discovered a minor new comet, immemorial portent of war, famine and pestilence, the Berlin radio gave hurried reassurance: "These comets have their rational explanation. There is no need to have cold shivers running over your spine...
Three choruses from the Bach "Mass in B Minor," which the combined choruses sang in its entirety to a sold-out Symphony Hall on Sunday, April 30, under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, will open tonight's concert. With Paul D. Tibbetts '45 taking the baritone solo three choruses from Brahm's "Requiem" will conclude the program...
Guatemala resembles a neat, well-run model prison under President Jorge Ubico, who thinks that he looks like Napoleon and postures accordingly. Foreign interests find him cooperative, admire the trembling honesty of his minor officials. Guatemala's atmosphere of all-pervading terror is probably the worst in Latin America...
...Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged her to read them, but she could...