Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory, one more square wheel in the Harvard athletic system jarred to a stop. Throughout the year two thirds of the squad consistently competed in nine out of eleven possible victories. But only six of these will get a major H. The rest will have to console themselves with minor letters as recognition of their effort. For under Harvard's unique and cobweb-hung system, not those who compete, but only those who place against Yale earn a full emblem. A man can be one of the two best on his squad in an event, and still not display...
...winner of the competition becomes manager of the Freshman crew and receives major numerals; the next in line receives minor numerals. The four best men are taken to the camp at Red Top for the final training before the Yale races. A number, as yet undecided, will be asked to compete again in their Sophomore year on an equal basis for the jobs of Varsity Manager, and Varsity 150-pound Manager...
Recognized this year as a minor sport for the first time and anxious to make a good showing, the rifle team is now in third place in the Intercollegiate League...
...Smoothest "agents" threw numerous cocktail parties for industrialists at swanky hotels to which they also invited various minor Ministry officials-or at least men who posed as from the Ministry...
Lasar Segall paints violence from memory. A Jew, he spent his youth in Tsarist Russia. In 1912 he won minor fame by being the first Cubist to exhibit in Brazil. In 1923 he went there to live. As a Brazilian, brown-haired Lasar Segall has painted jungles, plantations and coffee-handling with a realism that does his naturalization papers credit. Last week, at 49, Artist Segall made his U. S. debut at Manhattan's Neumann-Willard Gallery with a show of oils, water colors and etchings. Critics were impressed...