Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mopping up took place a year ago, another minor one last winter. Last week 200 of the constabulary under two white officers undertook the destruction of the Moro strongholds in the hills of Mindanao. There were three days of continuous fighting and five forts fell. Of the Moros 50 were killed; of the constabulary five were killed and 17 wounded...
There followed a few minor eruptions in the press and then more and more vigorous ebullitions in Congress. Not only did such men as Senator Bruce (Wet and Democratic) of Maryland denounce the order as an invasion of state rights, but such men as Senator Goff (Dry and Republican) of West Virginia inveighed against it. Democrats such as Robinson of Arkansas, King of Utah, George of Georgia, turned upon the order. So did Wadsworth, Republican, of New York...
...some festivities, Milton complied with a "Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," long since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...
...painting instructed their apprentices as they worked for the masters from dawn till dusk. The great monuments and works of art of past time were brought forth in such an atmosphere where master and pupil mangled in intimate personal connection of creation and criticism. For sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, the nineteenth century saw the disappearance of the old workshop but fortunately for architecture the tradition comes down to us in unbroken line from Egypt and Greece--not only in stylistic influences and legends, but in manipulation of process and technique...
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 in F minor. Third Movement: Scherzo, Pizzicato ostinato: Allegro...