Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home Office restricts attendance to half the ground capacity on account of possible air raids. This season's biggest match, England v. Scotland, will be played on April 18 at Glasgow, where the grounds can hold 150,000. Last week the firemen of Bolton, Lancashire caused a minor scandal when they borrowed the National Fire Service tender to make a 278-mile round trip for a soccer game with the firemen of Dumfries, Scotland...
Fourth. Club: Germany. Nickname: Huns. Manager: Hitler. Comment: veteran team; went well against minor-league competition threat. Predictions: looks to be stale; manager trouble; contender. Odds...
...number of undergraduate concentrators in these fields has not suffered a serious drop this year. Minor reductions have occurred such as the Sociology Department losing four Seniors of its total of 70 concentrators last fall. Rules of concentration also have only been adjusted within the general University regulations except for the granting of giving divisonals at off times in individual cases...
George Sylvester Viereck, major propagandist and minor poet, was never one to belittle George Sylvester Viereck, in any capacity. In his ponderous, humorless autobiography he ardently paid homage to his own poetasting, awarded himself a few oh-you-kids as a lady-killer. In his Spreading Germs of Hate he elaborately detailed his activities as a German propagandist in World War I. Said he: "There is no infallible safeguard against propaganda"-meaning, of course, when conducted by a clever fellow like George Viereck...
...wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated the Government of India Act of 1935 (he accomplished a minor revolution by having Parliament open its windows in the summertime). He became Viceroy...