Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes in the Reichstag out of a total of 493. Dr. Luther thus heads a "Little Coalition," with barely enough votes to outnumber the Left (Socialists, 131; Communists, 45) or the Right (German National People's Party, 103). In addition, some 43 votes appertaining to the numerous minor parties, and mostly leaning toward the Right, further serve to divide the Reichstag roughly into three loose factions of almost eq,ual power: "the Lefts," "Luther's Little Centre Coalition," and "the Rights...
...back on half his band, scrunch himself down to a miserly six and a half feet and, hair waving, fly at his violins, draw unfathomable" strength from their very hearts. Musicians sat with eyes closed, contented and appreciative of his reading of Haydn's Symphony in C minor, Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and Beethoven's Seventh...
There, rules which once made the House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed...
Engaged. Miss Mary Isabel Garland, daughter of Novelist Hamlin Garland (The Long Trail, Money Magic, Her Mountain Lover, Wayside Courtships), player for a year in minor roles with Walter Hampden; to Hardesty Johnson, tenor...
...find that the headline "Three Minor Letters Equal to Straight 'H'" as well as the quoted statement "that any man receiving three minor sport 'H's' in three different sports be awarded a straight 'H'" has given rise to a misunderstanding of what is really intended by the Minor Sport Souncil. The phrase "Straight 'H'" should be corrected to read "Minor 'H'"; for the provision was passed that any man receiving three minor letters in different sports be awarded the Minor "B", which is quite different from the Straight or Varsity...