Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing is decidedly lacking in the February number, and most of the material leaves the unsatisfactorily impression that one has read it somewhere before. And the appearance of the magazine, heretofore so pleasant, has been largely spoiled by the change to a smaller type size. That may be a minor criticism, but the new look makes the pages seem gray and almost formidable...
...University should spare no effort to make AVC's job a minor one, however. Some of the official reasons for raising rents at all are decidedly open to doubt; a ham-handed administration of next fall's unpleasantness will surely do little to quiet these suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed...
Reformation. In Honolulu, Tattoo Artist Urbano Manipon got a jail sentence for sketching a naked girl on a minor's arm, got the sentence suspended when he added a hula skirt...
...seven years as Mrs. Sears, Eva made many friends and picked up one of those nicknames which women of café society wear like amusing jewelry. Hers was "Bobo." The Searses lived in Boston, where Bobo did war relief work; in Los Angeles, where she played minor roles in motion pictures; and finally in Paris, where Sears was third secretary in the U.S. embassy. Eighteen months ago, at a dinner party given by Mrs. Elizabeth ("Liz") Whitney, Bobo met Winthrop Rockefeller...
...Guilty? An investigator armed with all the inside information that Author Wilder makes available for him should have no difficulty in deciding who instigated the crime. In this account, Brutus is a minor character. Cassius does not even appear. If they did not know about Brutus, readers might well decide that the real villain must have been Clodia Pulcher, a likely suspect if there ever was one, dissolute, clever, and already mixed up in one attempt on Caesar's life...