Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This settlement, of course, was only a minor irritation compared to the real problems of finance during the Revolution which were inherited by Hancock's successor. Treasurer Storer's faith and foresight led him to buy Continental Loan Certificates during these years of incredible inflation, and the Harvard history books single him out as one of the University's greatest heroes. Whether or not he saved the school from "hopeless bankruptcy," Storer's feat of raising the College's personal estate from $55,000 in 1777 to $182,000 some 16 years later was truly remarkable...
...fortunate enough to hear the 96-year-old William H. Jackson describe in a lecture how he made Colorado's famous Mountain of the Holy Cross picture in 1873 [TIME, May 31]. It's only a minor detail in your story, but I cannot resist pointing out that Mr. Jackson was not fortunate enough to clamber up the iced boulders with "primitive film." Somebody in his party had to haul glass plates up the mountain so that when the time came to make an exposure, all he had to do was to kneel in his tiny darkroom tent...
...This bit of business, a spur-of-the-moment invention by Bogart, set off one of the many minor crises that developed during the shooting of The Caine Mutiny. Commander James C. Shaw, a World War II naval hero (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima) who put in a 10½-month tour as technical adviser on the movie, objected to it immediately on the theory that an Annapolis man would never butter a whole piece of toast but would first break it into fragments. "I went to school at Andover," huffed Bogart indignantly. "Are you trying to tell me that Annapolis...
Thus far, Mr. Peepers has concentrated on the minor problems of a high-school science teacher, played to awkward, heart-warming perfection by Wally Cox, who has spent as much time with eccentric friends and co-workers as he has on his sexless courtship of School Nurse Benoit. But even in television, things are bound to be different after a man gets married...
Chrysler has given Designer Virgil M. Exner, a former Raymond Loewy assistant, a free hand on its 1955s-so free, in fact, that even last week minor changes were still being made on the new models on the test track. Chrysler, which has run against the trend to long, low styling, has reversed itself. Dodge and Plymouth will both be longer and lower. Chrysler's most powerful engine will be raised from 235 h.p. to 245 h.p. or better...