Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S best boosters in South America I have often shown your magazine to my Uruguayan friends as the outstanding information publication of my country. Consequently, after boasting proudly of TIME'S accuracy in reporting even minor events of interest, I was quite astonished to read in my copy of Dec. 3, just received, on page 7 under "Chief Yeoman," that Mr. Hoover's complete itinerary included Montevideo (URAGUAY...
...martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story, and would better be read in its proper sequence...
...Passed many a minor bill on the unanimous consent calendar...
...tall, hulking man walked on to the stage at Carnegie Hall last week, bent himself into an awkward bow at the piano, and played superbly Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, three Scarlatti sonatas, Schumann's C Major Fantasia and the first book of Debussy preludes. He was Walter Gieseking, come from Germany for another extended tour,* and he played, as he has always played, music that he himself has tried truly and found good...
...invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner join the association, he would probably soon be informed that higher prices were to be charged for dyeing and cleaning, but that the association...