Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their great offensive. All along the 2,000-mile front, from Murmansk to the Sea of Azov, innumerable local chores of war have been done. The World has heard echoes of these preparatory struggles in the news from the Kharkov front last month, in the tidings of skirmishes and minor battles last week below Leningrad, on the Moscow front, in the Kalinin area near Smolensk west of the capital, below Kharkov where the Nazis advanced. Greatest of them all was the battle for Sevastopol, whose seizure was both a necessary conclusion to the Nazis' Crimean conquest and an essential...
...several buildings of importance to 1946. The Indoor Athletic Building, between Holyoke and Dunster streets, is the center of all indoor athletic activity. That is where you must go for your swimming test. North of it is the Hygiene Building, with a small staff of doctors to care for minor ailments. On Linden street are the University Squash Courts, while facing the Yard on Massachusetts Avenue are Little and Holyoke Halls...
...ambiguously owned by British Unilever's Dutch affiliate Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V., through a South African holding company—has always been famed for spotting and invading a good established consumer-goods field where there was room for competition. But the battle of shortening was really only a minor engagement...
Bill Batt's good word about the smelter brought to mind some minor bad news from Bolivia. Now that the Japs have cornered 90% of the world's tin supply Bolivia has regretted the 50? a lb. delivered price that looked so good before Pearl Harbor. Bolivia is now talking 60? at the embarkation point. Before the war high grade Straits...
Other Council reports in the past decade have dealt with the overcrowding in the Houses; the Faculty tenure system and its impact on undergraduate instruction; and the relation between intramural and minor sports in the College athletic program...