Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader of Britain's House of Commons, Herbert Morrison, with his wife and 400 of his East Lewisham, London constituents, took a paddleboat down the Thames to Southend for a picnic, during which Politician Morrison played prestidigitator and performed a minor political hat trick...
Meanwhile the Labor Department prepared for mutilation. With the loss of its Conciliation Service, the Department was left with the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Wage and Hour Division, and a couple of minor sections. The crack-of-the-week in Washington was that Secretary Lew Schwellenbach is the only bureau chief in the capital who has cabinet status...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield do not cover minor illnesses such as colds and sore throats. On this score the Hygiene Department has the advantage; yet the cost of caring for such minor ailments must not constitute a very considerable proportion of the Department's expenses, since all the patient usually receives is advice to go buy a box of aspirin and a package of cough drops at Billings and Stover. Should the student require x-rays, anesthetics, special materials, or special laboratory examinations, he must pay for them himself. Care in Stillman is limited to one week per term...
Stars of the picture are Valeric Hobson and John Mills, but the minor characters are not less skillful, not is anybody who made "Great Expectations," from Dickens to director...
...minor disappointment. Bevin had asked for snails (which he learned to like during the Paris Conference last summer), but had not given the Embassy chef enough notice. At dessert, fruit had to be substituted for strawberry melba, be cause, at the last moment, the iceman (striking for five francs more an hour) did not come...