Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics of NSA contend that the body is controlled from the top by a tight core of professional student legislators, and that Harvard plays a very minor role in policy decisions...
...reminded by Stevenson's speeches of the oldtime patent medicine man who used to drive into a town, gather a crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir...
...Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters, France's Chardin and Spanish Painter Zurbaran. Far from being a drab assortment of pots and pans, dead hares and Dutch ham, the exhibit does much to prove that minor them do not preclude a major work. Says Milwaukee Art Institute Director Edward H. Dwight of their intimate yet forceful quality: "The still life is to the painter what the quartet to the composer...
...football Ivy League 1956, seems little different from football Ivy League 1954. Whereas the Agreement might imply that football will only hold a minor place in the overall life of a University, the opposite seems to be true. Today, for instance, some 30,000 fans, will pile into the Crescent for a football game, and moreover, Eddie Kaw, the great Big Red fullback of the early 20's will be honored for being named to the football Hall of Fame...
...position was well-taken, but a minor reservation arises as to the manner of its presentation to the public. It would appear that the Department of Athletics tried to keep the story quiet. Releases were mailed to only a part of the regular mailing list, and there was careful wording to avoid the mention of the word "Negro," and to stress the word "eligibility." Furthermore, the issue was released during the World Series, when it could normally expect little notice on sports pages...