Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overtime hours wore on, the conference committee members wearied of the stalemate, and the Jenner legislators finally capitulated: they agreed to accept a compromise provision that no state funds could be spent on roads that would serve "only" as feeders for toll roads. This was such a minor limitation that jubilant Craig men talked of sending down to the drugstore to get some "face-saving cream" for their foes. Cracked one Craig partisan: "We can build outhouses on the toll roads if we want...
...Romance is only a minor consideration in selecting a farm wife . . . After he has married her, love will likely come along, in the field while she is pitching hay up to him, or in the barn when she whacks Daisy for stepping on her foot . . . After all, a farmer can give only a very small part of his time to love, working as he does from sun to sun and then falling into bed dead tired after an early supper...
...Meany was elected secretary-treasurer of the New York building trades council and began to be a minor mover and shaker in city labor affairs. With the Depression, construction work in New York almost came to a halt. Along with other union officials, Meany took a 50% cut in salary, then went nine months with no pay. The city unions were in a desperate condition, and when an upstate bartender seemed likely to become state president of the A.F.L., the New York City building trades decided he knew nothing about their problems, and nominated Meany, who was elected...
...seemed just another minor setback when, on a September morning in 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming looked at a little glass dish in which he had been growing some staphylococci (the germs that flourish in boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...