Word: minor
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...Dealer, but he helped devise, draft and fight through many a major New Deal measure, notably Rural Electrification, the Securities Exchange Act, the Utility Holding Company Act. He has differed with New Deal strategists, but once Administration policy has been decided upon, he has, with but minor and rare exceptions, fought tooth & toenail to carry it through the House. He has been coldest to New Deal labor measures...
...well in German hands. They said that the estimated 34 Italian divisions in the Balkans were being peaceably disarmed and replaced by German divisions. They said that the Italians, bidden by British Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to "turn out the Germans," were making trouble only in "minor instances...
...Rochester, habitual minor leaguer, had a V12 program and the prospects of a lifetime...
Across the nation, wrecks occurred. Most were minor. None was as costly as in the preceding eight days, when 109 people were killed in three Eastern railway disasters. But they came with a shuddering frequency that showed the increasing strain of the railroads' job. The locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee Road's crack Olympian were derailed by a buckled rail south of Seattle (five injured). Two Nickel Plate engines collided head-on at Brocton, N.Y. (none seriously hurt...
...remainder of the outdoor season, Freshmen may enter House football, baseball, softball, or volleyball every afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Freshmen may take out singles for a minor credit two days a week from 10 to 5:30 o'clock. Tennis also counts as a minor sport. Military track is open to undergraduates every afternoon at Soldiers Field...