Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portsmouth (Va.) Merri-macs. filed a $250,000 damage suit in Federal Court against Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and 16 major-league teams for violating baseball's territorial protection rule. Although the rule makes no mention of TV, Lawrence insists that televising big-league games in minor-league cities is just as bad as the forbidden practice of bringing the games themselves to town: many minor-league clubs (including the Merrimacs) are going broke because their fans prefer big-league telecasts...
...than go to pot with Baker. As a matter of fact, Baker is not a pleasant type. He runs a funny-money business on the side, and before the end of the picture, he is raving like a homicidal maniac. Nonetheless, the moviegoer may feel that homicide is a minor offense compared to those blasted pots...
...With minor reservations the other seven directors support him. Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director at Harvard, supported Fairman's program provided the H.A.A. can meet the added costs, which he estimates around...
Here and there in his earliest work, the teen-age poet experiments with the echoes of Byron and Coleridge that gave grace to such later ethereal nonsense as the White Knight's song in Through the Looking-Glass-a minor classic if read through half-closed eyes in a willing suspension of common sense. In Clara, young Carroll writes...
...teams won 12 and lost none. One of the 12 victories each year was over perennially loaded Yale, making Ulen the only Eastern coach who has broken the Eli swimming juggernaut twice. The second time he did it, the University changed swimming from a minor to a major sport...