Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle-lit tea rooms, those flery spirits to whom James Joyce is an immortal and Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot minor prophets. The sincerity of this public compensates for its numerical insignificance and the reward for its undergraduate devotion is the exquisitely edited Hound and Horn...
...Chief Executive spent an active week acquainting himself with the devices and desires of the Cabinet, the legislators and many minor executives. He re-examined his decision against a special session of Congress (see THE CONGRESS). He heard Senator Borah of Idaho on the subject of the onion tariff and Representative Dan A. Sutherland of Alaska on the subject of salmon being disturbed by earthquakes. General John H. Russell, High Commissioner to Haiti, paid respects before returning to his post. Governor General M. L. Walker of the Panama Canal Zone conferred for a half-hour. They were...
...unable to turn the full power of his 200 pounds to good account and in the season's final encounter was the mark of frequent Eli thrusts which went for substantial gains. Last year he was on the University squad, played in most of the season's minor games, and showed marked improvement over the Freshman playing. This year he has risen to first string ranking, and according to reports which emanate from the secret Soldiers Field practice sessions gives promise of great further improvement. Clark is six feet, five inches tall, weighs 210 pounds this year...
Such lay questions were answered by Dr. Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, psychologist at Temple University, Philadelphia, who set Psychologist Aveling right on a minor point besides carrying the Aveling analysis of laughter one illuminating step further. The minor point was: whereas Dr. Aveling supposed hyenas and humans to be the only laughing animals, Dr. Bolton had observed laughter in cows, calves, horses, monkeys; "and the most obvious laughter in the animal kingdom is that...
...plot of that true story is unraveled next month before a grand jury, one of the most promising careers in U. S. literature is in abeyance. Factitious folk have tried, futilely, to draw conclusions from the identical first names of Mr. Cline's unfortunate guest and one of his minor characters...