Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of high school, Jack went off to Anchorage, Alaska, to stay with Helen and her husband, a construction worker. After a few months, however, he joined the Coast Guard, lying about his age (he was 16). After nine months, including 63 days AWOL, he was discharged as a minor. In January 1950, he was back in Denver. The next year he went to work for a manufacturer of trailer-truck equipment as a $200-a-month payroll clerk. A month later, Graham stole a batch of company checks, forged the name of an official on them, and cashed...
...taken to a nearby hospital to have his minor head injury treated. Unshaken, he told a TIME correspondent: "Write your magazine that our enemy's attempt to change the situation has failed, and I will be going to Bagdad tomorrow," for the first meeting of the "northern-tier" powers, who are joined in a mutual-defense pact against Communism...
This is the first time since 1938, when swimming was raised, that a minor sport has been voted major status, and the move paves the way for other minor sports such as cross country and wrestling to joined the elevated ranks. Petitions to this effect from these two sports are now pending before the council and will probably be considered at its next meeting before Christmas...
...over-all consideration of the college's 11 minor sports, the council is taking each sport individually rather than voting on the entire group at once, which has been the procedure at Yale and Princeton in recent years. This could conceivably mean that it will be another 17 years before Harvard has its ninth major sport, but this seems highly unlikely...
Holmes, who was injured in the Yale game last Friday, was one of three minor sports representatives on the 14-man Council...