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Word: minore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to correct a minor discrepancy: E.O.K.A. is not a "Communist terror group." The initials stand for the Greek words National Organization for Cypriot Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Despite exams and several minor injuries, the track team will enter a full complement of men in the annual Boston Athletic Association Meet in the Boston Garden, at 7:15 tomorrow evening...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cohen and Dillard to Meet in BAA; Two-Mile Relay Team Seeks Mark | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

Last week Conductor James Robertson led the Wichita Symphony in its third concert of the season. The program ranged from the almost-modern Sibelius Concerto in D Minor (with 28-year-old Violinist Aaron Rosand) to Rimsky-Korsakov's well-worn Scheherazade-which miffed a few of Wichita's growing number of musical sophisticates, but wowed the big audiences. The performances sounded as rich and bold as a big-city orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culture in Kansas | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Robert Walter Minor, 36, was nominated for membership on the eleven-man Interstate Commerce Commission, the youngest man ever named to the oldest regulatory body in the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...native Ohioan and Big Man on Campus (Ohio State), Minor came to ICC by a remarkably circuitous route. He worked summer vacations as an entertainer in New York's borscht circuit, later spent a year touring 40 states with a Major Bowes unit as part of a three-man comedy act called The Micro Maniacs. Drafted into the Army in 1942, Minor rose to command a machine-gun company in the Normandy invasion (where he received the Purple Heart), went back to civilian life in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and returned to Ohio State, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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