Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first printing of 500,000 copies was marred in two places by having drawings transposed, including two illustrating artificial respiration, and by minor errors in five other drawings, all duly noted on a loose, easily lost errata slip...
...Minor wounds with slight bleeding should be washed with cool water and soap. Formerly, washing was discouraged for fear of infection...
...have been trying to think what it is. I just wonder if perhaps it isn't because this Eisenhower Administration has done such a tremendously successful job on the big things-on the things that got him elected. Each of us is thinking of some of the more minor things that we would like to have handled just the way we would have done, and one after another becomes dissatisfied with what is going...
Maxim us or Optimus? In pages as crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third...
...when he arrived in Rome in 1510 on a minor mission for his order, the young Augustinian monk of Wittenberg, Martin Luther by name, fell on his knees and cried: "Hail to thee, O Holy Rome!" Luther "went through all the devotions of a pilgrim . . . and earned so many indulgences that he almost wished his parents were dead, so that he might deliver them from purgatory...