Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dusty had been powdering baseballs ever since he was a drawling teenager in Montgomery, Ala. At 16 he played for a church team, the St. Andrew's Gaels, and in 1946, after a tour in the Navy, he began kicking around in the minor leagues. He started low-with the Hall Brothers' Dairy team-and moved up slowly. He had a busher's habit of muffing flies and missing curfews. "Dusty," said a careful friend, "was a midnight man in a 9 o'clock town." It took him six years to show signs of settling down...
...faced the frustration--in spite of the forced vacation--of giving up several hundred dollars that could have made their college year more enjoyable--just to save their parents a tax exemption. They too had occasionally wondered why parents had to be one of the hardships of a minor's life. But the ruse went unabashedly...
This measure follows a string of minor robberies occurring around the University in the past week...
Toohy explained that minor stealing never stopped in the Cambridge area, though none has been reported from the Houses so far this fall. Last spring three large robberies occurred in the Business School...
London dailies, the biggest in the world, are trying a new way to grow bigger. They are publishing children's weeklies. The breezy Laborite tabloid Minor (circ. 4,535,687) started it with Junior Mirror, filled with puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions...