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Word: minore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided with a bus. Unperturbed, Sir Winston grinned at the crowds, proceeded uninjured, his car's fender dented, its bumper askew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...stroke, Sulzberger oversees the Times (1957 payroll: $33.3 million) from his small office, which was once a sitting room for the adjoining ballroom-sized office that Ochs used. A polite perfectionist, Sulzberger plans no major switches in the Times's tried formula. "We're always making minor changes-we never try to startle." Major future project is the erection of a modern new home for the paper on a four-block-long frontage on Manhattan's West Side. Already begun, its first building will be completed in 1959, will cost some $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times Tells the Story | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...slow final scene and perhaps an overly chilly handling of the husband's part are minor inconsistencies in what is otherwise a splended production. Although the Charles Street version of La Ronde is not recommended for the Victorian temperament, it provides an enjoyable evening of Spring theater. If sex is not always beautiful it can at least...

Author: By Joe W. Shepard, | Title: La Ronde | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Although no one was seriously injured by the explosion, two persons were taken to Stillman with minor lacerations. Malcolm J. Arth, teaching fellow in Social Relations, and Emanuel A. Shegloff '58 had been sitting at the counter, and were cut by the force of the blast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Throwers Apprehended By Police Yesterday | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...winter baseball meetings of 1956, O'Malley cornered his old friend Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, and poured out his troubles. He wanted to buy the Cubs' minor-league franchise in Los Angeles. "I wanted to bring the New York situation to a head," says he blandly. "I wanted an anchor to windward." A couple of months later, O'Malley announced that Wrigley had agreed to sell, touching off the fanciest baseball guessing game since the Black Sox scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walter in Wonderland | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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