Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
...could hit a piano keyboard very hard. But she can: there is enough thunder in her piano-playing to have been heard all over Paris. Last week, when Nicole made her U.S. debut in Carnegie Hall, some Manhattan critics found her performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, "is an artist one can enjoy with...
...wants to photograph. He will telephone instructions to an assistant down at the control desk; the massive telescope will swing almost silently. When Hubble is satisfied that it is pointed right, he will put a plate in the holder, watch through a microscope, and make careful minor adjustments while the scattered photons of nebula light (some of which have been traveling for a billion years) make their marks on the photosensitive emulsion...
Life on a California prison farm was a humbling experience for Big Bill Tilden. During his 7½ months in jail (for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But his prison term hadn't really changed him. He had just published a book, and in it he was still the arrogant and unblushing showoff...
...faintly embarrassed answer was that the best of them were gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...