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Word: minore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until 1924 the Student Council was a large, unwieldy and rather impotent body, to which only four men, one from each class, were elected. In addition to these, the captains and managers of the major sports, a representative of the Minor Sports Council, the Presidents of the three periodicals, and the class officers automatically became members in an ex-officio capacity. It was found, three years ago, that, as a general thing, this body not only took little interest in, or felt serious responsibility for the activities of the Council but was, besides very difficult to get together for concerted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE NEW MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED TO STUDENT COUNCIL | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

...House-Devoted itself to passing a number of minor bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...settlements arranged and pending before the Senate: the Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Esthonian, Latvian, Roumanian. Since the chief concessions were made to Italy, it called forth the major opposition of the Progressive Republicans and Democrats. Having won the major issue, the majority was prepared to press to easy victory in the minor events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Italian Debt | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...results of the Phillips Brooks House Association Spring Drive for clothing many facts which will be of distinct service to University psychologists were brought to light. Among other things a badly used inner tube was believed by one benevolent undergraduate to be of value to the destitute of Asia Minor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syrians to Profit by Old Neckties, Two Bibles and an Inner Tube in Addition to Old Clothing of Student Philanthropists | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...drive was carried on for the benefit of the Near East Relief to clothe the destitute people of Asia Minor who, according to the announcement at the beginning of the drive "have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer." In view of this it is striking to note that the largest item on the list, which indeed contains a goodly number of assorted clothes including 200 elderly neckties, was about three tons of magazines. The collection committee, feeling that these would not prove of particular advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syrians to Profit by Old Neckties, Two Bibles and an Inner Tube in Addition to Old Clothing of Student Philanthropists | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

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