Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostile ground are of little value, we shall soon have to go." Accepting this fact, the Guardian wondered whether Asian nations had examined the consequences: "In terms of a major war, Singapore and Ceylon are probably not important. [But] the military danger to non-Communist Asia is of minor wars, not of one major outbreak." Once the British withdraw, they cannot return on instant call; it takes weeks to make an abandoned base operational. Then it might be too late. "Not even an appeal by the United Nations-in the event, for example, of a serious incursion across the borders...
...luxuriously house hundreds in the presidential parties, including ambassadors attending the concurrent meeting of the Organization of American States. President Eisen hower very likely will stay at the spacious hilltop U.S. embassy residence near by, and other Presidents might also prefer their own embassies, technically native soil. But advisers, minor officials and many newsmen may wind up billeted at U.S. military posts in the Canal Zone...
...football players, freshman and varsity alike, lose a year of eligibility unless they can prove that they have not been paid under the table. And because Chancellor Raymond B. Allen did not cooperate with the conference investigation. U.C.L.A. was fined an additional $15,000. Because of the relatively minor transgression of its careless campus labor program for athletes, U.C.L.A. was nicked for another...
Born Nov. 18, 1904, son of a minor Lowland laird...
Tons of CO2. The temperature of the earth's surface depends largely on two minor constituents of the atmosphere: water vapor and carbon dioxide. They are transparent to the short-wave energy (light and near infrared) that comes from the sun, but opaque to most of the long-wave heat radiation that tries to return to space. This "greenhouse effect" traps heat and makes the earth's surface considerably warmer than it would be if the atmosphere had no water vapor or carbon dioxide in it. An increase in either constituent would make it warmer still. Warm eras...