Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharp steel cut deep in cloudy ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. Hooked stick is shorter this year, limited to 53 inches, instead of 60. Overtime allowance has been cut from 20 to 10 minutes. Abolished are penalty free shots. There are other minor changes. Otherwise the professional hockey season opened last week to frantic crowds in U. S. and Canadian cities much as it closed last April when Ottawa won the world's championship from Boston...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which have been the foremost exponents of the new manly art of self defense, are cited as the outstanding culprits of a system that has saddled an incubus on the high schools. Whereas formerly the issue being debated has been regarded as of at least minor importance, it now received no attention whatever. And a million high school boys and girls, who find little of the abundant humor that the Debating Union finds in the prohibition question, are forced to follow in imitation of those who had hitherto been believed the most trust-worthy of guides...
...lists, which may undergo some minor revision, according to Ernest Perrin, coach of the production, include undergraduates of the College and Boston debutantes of this season and of past seasons...
...motives in the world; is interrupted by the arrival of His Gracious Majesty Charles II who has practically the same motives; is further embarrassed by the entrance of irate Mrs. Pepys. Wallace Eddinger plays the part in a manner agreeable but somewhat anachronistic. The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, is the same that played successfully in London, including Yvonne Arnaud, excellent as the wife. Pepys is pronounced in the play as it was by the diarist himself, "Peeps...
...first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...