Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather complacent administrative system has sustained a number of anachronisms in the Athletic Association's methods of awarding sports letters. A player in a major sport gets his major "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale opponents, while an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how brilliant his record, has to be content with a small letter. And if a man in any sport does not play in his Yale contest--for whatever reasons --he has to forego his letter...
...since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
...quiet announcement from the National Military Establishment Munitions Board last week gave U.S. industry a minor shock. Said Board Chairman*Thomas J. Hargrave, president of Eastman Kodak Co.: the first steps toward industrial mobilization of U.S. plants for war have been taken. The new program bore the jawbreaking name of "Allocation of Private Industrial Capacity for Procurement Planning of the Armed Services"-or APICPPAS, for short...
...minor role, Mason does little more than sip champagne, dilate his nostrils and murmur, with a leer: "Not quite cool enough but beautifully alive!" At that, he easily takes the romantic play away from the deadpan leading man, Stewart Granger. Phyllis Calvert, as a cabinet member's illegitimate child who eventually achieves her rightful station, displays a fine-boned beauty and something beyond the call of duty in a British cinemactress: a good set of teeth. A merciful Atlantic washed away the picture's only other attraction: the original title, Fanny by Gaslight...
...stolen represents a major part of the organization's cash assets. Its loss was discovered after Network operatives found a neat hole punched in a window in the rear of their studios. Other evidences of a minor disruption in the Network's affairs include a room which was forcibly entered, and a missing cash...