Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Organized athletics came next in importance, with not only major and minor sports, but the time spent in athletic management or in competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether...
With the general vacation exodus from Cambridge, three minor sport teams leave on their spring trips within the next two days. Polo and tennis teams depart for the more favorable climate of Virginia and Maryland, while the lacrosse men go out to meet some of the strong New York state teams...
...year, correspondents at Bucharest have amused themselves by announcing the fall of the Bratiano cabinet every other week while denying this eventuality between times. The truth of the matter has been that Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled it as news...
...Dominus Apostolicus setting out for the Arctic? He was not, of course, setting out at all! The indiscreet headline writer had created a false impression with regard to the Summus Pontifex by neglecting to make clear that the story run beneath his headline was about R. A. Pope, a minor explorer...
...last week have faded into obscurity and Baltimore, as Boston settles down, if not to the domination's of the Society for the Prevention of Profligate Abstractions, at least to the quiet and calm which is as much a part of the town as the diversity of her minor monotonies. Genuine reflection, however does continue and prompts an occasional reference to the story of the lady whose name was not Lou and the man who sold the story on Brimstone Corner...